we don’t begin well. We begin as sinners, desperately needing God’s grace. But even when we come to Christ, receive His grace and forgiveness, and begin running the race set before us [Hebrews 12:1] our race is often
A number of these symbols were noted on the English DVD commentary for Death and Rebirth and End of Evangelion. Many of the characters share their names with Japanese warships from World War II (such as the SōryūWP, AkagiWP, and KatsuragiWP; though the ship names and character names ...
Chapter xiv. has been held to be a later addition, unhistorical and belonging to none of the sources. Yet the story contains old historical material. The information must be based on Babylonian accounts (Hommel, "Alt-Israelitische Ueberlieferung," p. 153, speaks of an old Jerusalem tradition...
Genesis 3:1 tn The chapter begins with a disjunctive clause (conjunction + subject + predicate) that introduces a new character and a new scene in the story. Genesis 3:1 sn Many theologians identify or associate the serpent with Satan. In this view Satan comes in the disguise of a serpent...
Jacob. — The history of Jacob and Joseph (Ge 36:1). — Here, after Isaac's death, we have (1) the genealogy of Esau (chapter 36), who then drops out of the narrative, in order that (2) the history of the patriarchs may be carried on without interruption to the death of ...
The one thing the book lacks (the reason I've rated it 4 instead of 5) is a tightly developed thematic structure。 It's an extended, occasionally discursive, essay。 that lacks the focus and the pauses for reflection that chapter divisions would give it。 。。。more...
CHAPTER 15:1–21 1After these things [events of the war] the word of the Lord came [renewed itself] unto Abram in vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield [in war even], and thy exceeding great reward [reward of the champion].2And Abram said, Lord God, what wilt thou ...
“both have been commanded equally and without distinction to take dominion, not one over the other, but both together over the rest of God’s creation for the glory of the Creator”.5The fundamental equality of man and woman is unhesitatingly proclaimed in the first chapter of the Bible. ...
Verse (Click for Chapter) New International VersionAnd the LORD God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”New Living TranslationThen the LORD...
Originally the passage may well have been understood as a guide to interpreting those four hexagrams which were composed of the complementary trigrams (i.e., nos. 12, 41, 32, and 63).19 Among the several trigram sequences described in the Shuogua commentary, only one explicitly arranges ...