Or in the words of Isaiah: "... and the government shall be upon his shoulders" (9:6). The Hellene network of allied city-states had no official capital but Athens was its most prominent and successful hub, celebrated across the world for being a societal miracle. It was named after ...
Jesus may also simply be the English version of the Greek version of the Hebrew name Joshua, which would hence be the name by which Jesus was known by his contemporaries. Note that when we reverse the two segments of the name Joshua (יהושע), we get the name Isaiah (י...
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the word of the Lord was precious in those days.Clarifying the meaning of this phrase, theTargum of Samuelreads: “the word of the Lord was hidden in those days; no prophecy was revealed.”[xxvii]According to Robert Alter, the phrase indicates that “there is some sort of breakdown in t...
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 ...
... In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun, which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run his course." That does not betray any lack of sympathy with the exuberant spirit of a lover. So Isaiah 62:4,5: "For Yahweh delighteth in...
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)...
(Smith 1989). Though, with the dubious benefit of hindsight, I do wonder if it might have actually been very badly named. Ethnicity and the Mixed Marriage Crisis in Ezra 9–10 did focus on the issue of intermarriage, with a chapter specifically devoted to the language around marriage and ...