In his letter to the saints in Rome, Paul declared that the things “written aforetime [the Old Testament Scriptures] were written for our learning” (Romans 15:4). Do these biblical examples mean nothing to us? Let us read, study, analyze, learn, and obey the will of our God. Conclus...
The Septuagint is a translation of the Hebrew Bible and some related texts into Koine Greek. As the primary Greek translation of the Old Testament, it is also called the Greek Old Testament. This translation is quoted in the New Testament, particularly by Paul, and also by the Greek Church...
However, Hebrew Old Testaments, commentaries, and other scholarly writings concerning the Hebrew Scriptures, were studied when the Old Testament of the "Wycliffe Bible" was written and revised (as were Greek sources when its New Testament was written and revised). For more on this, see 'A ...
In my previous life as a ancient near east/semitics/Old Testament scholar-in-training, I read Genesis in Hebrew and Aramaic, and contextual sources in Assyrian and Babylonian. However, my PhD training is in American Religious history, Reformation, and History of Science.1My dissertati...
When they afterward met together, he read the Scriptures, prayed, and exhorted, making at times the most familiar remarks, using very simple yet memorable illustrations. “I have a very lively recollection,” says Mr. Robert Edie, “of the intense earnestness of his addresses on occasions of ...
Worrell New Testamentand He said to them, "Therefore, every scribe, having been made a disciple to the Kingdom of heaven, is like a householder, who brings forth out of his treasure things new and old."Worsley New TestamentTherefore every teacher, who has been thus instructed in the ...
Ash Wednesday, 40 days before Easter (not counting Sundays).In 2025, Ash Wednesday is March 5.Many Christians attend church services on Ash Wednesday to receive ashes on their foreheads in the sign of the cross. (Ashes are a symbol of penance in the Old Testament and in pagan antiquity....
God tells us in the scriptures that we are to pray for our rulers and leaders for a very good reason, and the apostle Paul tells us exactly what that reason is. All through the New Testament, the scripture is surprisingly deferential to kings, rules and all people who are ...
Christian tradition employs the Hebrew Scriptures to legitimize the gospel of Jesus in theNew Testamentas the natural extension of the Abrahamiccovenant. The Old Testament, a name coined byMelito of Sardisin the 2nd centuryce, is longer than the Hebrew Bible, in part because Christian editors ...