That is why he says in verse 18, “You have faith and I have works; show me your faith without the works, and I will show you my faith by my works.” The fact that James speaks of works as something that shows faith instead of something that is needed...
(8) The eighth verse had better be joined with the seventh, and punctuated thus:—Let not that man think he shall receive anything of the Lord:—double minded, unstable in all his ways.The reason why he can obtain nothing is because he is a man of two minds, and by consequence uncert...
Male student:“The second things I really noticed and stuck out to me was the tendency to look at the initial relationship with Ruth and Boaz the wrong way. The other digs into the fact that most people see this as a love type story that has Boaz actually pining for Ruth. When explain...
All this, Maxwell and Boltzmann have explained, but the one who saw it in the cleanest way, in a book that is too little read because it is difficult to read, is Gibbs, in his Principles of Statistical Mechanics. — Henri Poincaré ...
“I retired,” said he, “to a cottage at Stowey, and provided for my scanty maintenance by writing verses for a London Morning Paper. I saw plainly, that literature was not a profession by which I could expect to live; for ‘I could not disguise from myself’, that whatever my talen...
The ‘extralexical’ echo of ‘the glory of God’ and the common image of an eager and athletic sun suggest that Shelley, too, is alluding to the Psalm (his deletion of ‘God’ in favour of ‘good’ is characteristic). In Chapter 5, Forrest-Thomson refers, again and again, to ‘the...
“Offer your prayers to Him who can give us wisdom to circumvent the cunning of the devils who fill these woods,” calmly interrupted the scout, “but spare your offers of money, which neither you may live to realize, nor I to profit by. These Mohicans and I will do what man’s thou...
He was already obsessed with Dylan (shades of things to come), and could quote him chapter and verse. He would sit on his bed and read his lyrics out loud, speculating on the meaning, and raving about the poetry, a bohemian bedroom critic. Fast forward to 1973 or so. I spent an ...
Dr. Samuel Gipp,An Understandable History of the Bible, Chapter 9: “I personally believe that God has perfectly preserved His Word in the King James or Authorized Version.I can at least produce a King James Bible to show what I believe in.Any person who claims that God inspired the origi...
But it is most obvious that the first five verses of the first chapter, and the last six verses of the fourth, were written by the compiler; those in the first chapter serving as an introduction to the narrative of Moses, which begins at the sixth verse. That Moses was on the east ...