After the flood, Noah planted a vineyard (Genesis 9:20) and vineyards in the Bible serve to depict mankind as a collective, social, cultural and intellectual entity rather than a physical entity (Isaiah 5:1, Matthew 21:33-41; also see our article on the noun αμπελος, ampelos...
liberty as democratic ideal and law as a tool to guarantee it, and the pursuit of literacy and wisdom as means to social cohesion, peace, prosperity and general bliss. The literacy that had once marked the servant class now marked the ruling class. Or in the words of Isaiah: "... and...
John the Baptist(the last Old Testament prophet) referred to Jesus as “TheLamb of God” (John 1:29,36).Lamb of Godis an Old Testament phrase referring to the sacrifices (Leviticus 4:32-35.Isaiah 53:4-12). Sin is a separator between man and our holy God, and in the Old Testament...
Mixing Metaphors: God as Mother and Father in Deutero-Isaiah (review) Dille introduces her methodology in chapter 1 and explores the ancient Israelite background for kinship and birthright metaphors in chapter 2. In chapters 3 through 7, she presents her analyses of five sets of mixed metaphors...
The seraphim were also thought of as winged, and in Isaiah's vision they were stationed above the Lord's throne (6:1-2). They seemed to possess a human figure, and had voices, faces, and feet. According to the vision their task was to participate in singing God's praises antiphonally...
12. Isaiah 65:17-20 “Anarcho-Preterism” is “the Gospel.”Let's start with the word "anarchism," which is even more offensive to most Christians than "preterism."In the Gospel of Mark, chapter 10 (see more below), Jesus discovers His disciples arguing about who is going to be the ...
This cannot be reproduced exactly in English, which has a very different alphabet of twenty-six letters.55 Another example is the formal verbal play in Isaiah 5:7, where the prophet says that God looked for "justice, but saw bloodshed; for righteousness, but heard cries of distress" (NIV)...
The designation minor refers not to the lesser importance of their message but to the shortness of their prophecies. Compared to the major prophets whose prophecies unfold at greater length – Isaiah’s cover 66 chapters; Jeremiah’s, 52; Ezekiel’s a mere 48, Zephaniah’s prophecy is only ...
Isaiah wrote a message to the people of Israel and others regarding two kings of Israel who didn't trust God, to remind the people that God will ultimately deliver them through His warrior servant/king to come. Jeremiah - Heartbroken
of thought. That school of thought would have focused on The Things Sown or Scattered; wisdoms from other nations and traditions, which could only have come from YHWH and were therefore acceptable. Of this the prophetIsaiahsays: "the wealth of the nations will come to you (Isaiah 60:5),...