Genesis 27:45 Meaning and Commentary Genesis 27:45 Until thy brother's anger turn away from thee Which is repeated from the preceding verse, to carry on the connection: and he forget [that] which thou hast done to him; in getting the blessing from him; being convinced that Jacob had...
Genesis 1:27 Meaning and Commentary Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image Which consisted both in the form of his body, and the erect stature of it, different from all other creatures; in agreement with the idea of that body, prepared in covenant for the Son of God, and ...
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(19) Arise . . . sit and eat.--The Hebrews at this time, and for centuries, sat at their meals (1Samuel 20:25). It was from the Romans that they learned to recline at table, as we find was their custom in the Gospels. It is a mistake,...
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(27) Created.--This significant verb is thrice repeated with reference to man. It indicates, first, that man has that in him which was not a development or evolution, but something new. He is, in fact, the most perfect work of the creative energy...
A review of a major, intellectually rich commentary on Genesis such as Claus Westermann's three volume work ultimately becomes a reflection on the current state of our field, raising historical questions about the very existence of the patriarchal period and significant literary-critical questions...
von Ewald, Commentary on the Prophets of the Old Testament, 5 Volumes, Edinburgh: ET, 1875-1881]), nor on the other hand that he should be twice as great as Elijah (so Ecclus. 48:13, Vulg.), but that he should he should be his successor. The word ruah (spirit) is not used ...
The composition of these Quaestiones et solutiones is in some parts of earlier in other of later date, than that of the large allegorical commentary, as is shown by the allusions to each other in both works." (The Literature of the Jewish People in the Time of Jesus, pp. 327-329) ...
Genesis 34:1 – 36:43 Original Meaning In this section of the commentary I have grouped together... Esau’s Family (36:1 – 43) Esau’s Family (36:1 – 43) With the summary of Jacob’s family (35:23 – 26) and the death of Isaac......
[1] Ken Stone, “Safer Text: Reading Biblical Laments in the Age of AIDS,” inSexuality and the Sacred, 349. Here Stone is drawing on the scholarship of David M. Halperin and his theory of queer politics as resistance. See also Ken Stone,Queer Commentary and the Hebrew Bible(Cleveland:...
Ellicott's Commentary for English ReadersTHE T?LD?TH TERAH. (27) Now these are the generations.--This toldoth, which extends to Genesis 25:11, is one of the most interesting in the Book of Genesis, as it gives us the history of the patriarch Abraham, in whom God was pleased to lay...