Seeing the cross serves as a tangible reminder of the suffering Jesus endured for humanity. The Apostle Paul had a deep conviction that the cross was not something to be hidden, but something to be shown to men. He wrote in Galatians how he couldn’t understand how they could have slipped...
I may be inserting a lot of scripture and theology into that simple verse—”He who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.” But “God’s keeping of Israel” is one way to describe the entire Bible, and so our psalm implicitly alludes to many, many acts and events in that one ...
Psalm 119:130 The law is a luminous sanctuary that fills souls with its clarity (see Ps 73:16f) when it is explained to them. Explanation: literally, “opening.” Psalm 119:131 Open wide my mouth and sigh: same image as in Job 29:23. Psalm 119:132 The psalmist asks for the Lord’...
6-19 could be readily explained if this is the psalmist’s enemies’ curse on him. However, it is much more natural to understand vv. 6-19 as the psalmist’s prayer against his enemies. There is no introductory quotation formula in v. 6 to indicate that the psalmist is quoting anyone,...
(5)For he . . .—Better, taking the relative of time (comp.Deuteronomy 11:6;Psalm 139:15),For he established(it as)a testimony in Jacob and(as)a law appointed(it)in Israel when he commanded our forefathers to make them(the“wonderful works”of last verse)known to their children.For...
(which use their broad feet to propel themselves underwater) and “dabblers” (which typically tip forward to submerge their heads into the water), and these categories are due to those respective ducks’ eating habits (as will be explained below). Of course, to confuse matters a bit, ...