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There is a sense in which all of the teachings of Jesus Christ — indeed, the teaching of the whole of Scripture —have an undeniable dimension of eschatology. The word eschatology comes from a combination of Greek words meaning “the study of last things.”2 However, the study of the las...
“Shall possess (in the Greek, shall inherit) the land,” is commonly understood after St. Jerome of the land of the living, viz. heaven, “credo videre bona Domini in terra viventium.” They shall possess the new heavens and the new earth. Indeed, in all these beatitudes, the rewards...
turntotheThirty-SeventhPsalm.Thereyouwillfinditwritten,“Themeekshallinherittheearth”(v.11).JesuswasaJewofthefirstcentury.Wetendtoforgetthatandthinkofhiminsteadasawhite,middle-classAmerican-Christian.Ohno,hewasJewishandamanofhistime.HislanguagesweretheancientHebrew,Aramaic,andGreek.TheHebrewwordthatis...
Article drawn from The Jesus Bible on promises to the "meek." As believers yield their rights and submit to Christ, he offers rest for our souls.