Man was made from the dust and the stone jars are symbolic of our flesh. It was symbolic of the new spiritual life Jesus would bring. It would begin with renewal of the Spirit in our bodies. Hallelujah! Welcome to fresh thinking. Everything on this site is original re...
Last year I spent a term reading through the Book of Daniel in the Old Testament. God’s people had been decimated and those who remained had been removed from every vestige of security. Their means of worship had been destroyed. The temple, priests, and sacrificial system had gone. They ...
Nesbit backgrounds this delightfully ironic fable with multiple allusions to one of the most famous morality tales in the Old Testament: King Belshazzar at his lavish feast where the writing on the wall appears and heralds the tyrant's doom. According to Proverbs, "Pride goeth before destruction,...
Number of chapters of the Gospel of Luke. The 24 classifications of priests and cantors. (1 Ch 24,1-19; 1 Ch 25,9-31) In the war led to Gath against Philistines, a warrior of great size had six fingers to each hand and to each foot, giving 24 fingers on the whole. (2 S 21...
which restrained the offering of sacrifice to those in the office of priests, when, before, every head of a family had a right unto it; and this custom of offering sacrifice was before the law of Moses, it was of divine institution, and in use from the time of the fall of man, Gene...
The novel’s characters live in world often defined by authority, and the application of it –“the power of priests in the close spaces of Ireland” (p. 182), or late capitalism’s treatment of Nell’s generation as “a throwaway thing … the infosphere, the nation state, the ...
Add my description of him as "a gangly New England type, long limbs and a high forehead," a sort of Lovecraftian John Cleese, and you have some idea of the drama of his lecturing style. Among his many points, he argued that fictional societies with medieval feudal overtones are not ...
To go back to the Old Testament history we have God’s Covenant with Abraham stamped with this number of Divine perfection (Gen 15). It was (like David’s, 2 Samuel 7) Divinely “ordered in all things, and sure.” God was ONE, i.e., the one party to it; for Abraham, who woul...
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