The learning of the Jews, for many years, consisted in a knowledge of the Scriptures. These were the textbooks of all the instruction that was given in the schools of their Prophets. It was by means of this general knowledge of their law that those Jews who wandered from Judea into other...
There are four types of institutions that provide intensive Jewish religious education as well as a complete course of study in general subject matter. The Talmudic day school makes provision for the study of the Hebrew texts of the Pentateuch and major portions of the Prophets and Scriptures, ...
Right here in Genesis, the first Book of the Bible, God’s Word, we see a picture of Jesus and how He paid a debt and “covered” our sin. He is the “Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.” How do we know? The Bible tells us so: John the Baptist in the New...
In my message today, I want to talk about how God gave words to his prophets and apostles to prepare us for the time we are living in right now. This is not so much a message on the faithfulness of God’s words in general, but on the importance of discerning the times we...
7we have distinct evidence that the term had come to be applied to prophets and priests, as in2 Corinthians 8:23andRevelation 1:20it is used of ministers in the Christian Church, and this, it is obvious, gives a tenable, and, on the whole, a preferable meaning. The man comes to ...
Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. 12.Therefore] The practical result of what has been said both in regard to judgment and to prayer is mutual charity. The thought of the divine judgment tea...
(to adopt the common, though, it is believed, an erroneous view) of the Old Testament. A rabbinic tradition makes her become the wife of Joshua and the ancestress of eight distinguished priests and prophets, ending in Huldah the Prophetess (2 Kings 22:14). Josephus (Ant. v. i. § 2...
“the Sea of Tiberias;” because by the time he wrote Tiberias, which in our Lord’s time had only just been founded by Herod Antipas, had grown into a flourishing town. Gennesareth is a clear sweet lake about five miles long and twelve broad, with the Jordan flowing through it. ...
and with our fathers] Jewish tradition says that the whole world was present at Sinai. ThusMidrash Rabbahon Exodus, cap. 28ad fin.: “Whatever the prophets were to utter in prophecy in every generation they received from Mount Sinai,” and presently after, commenting on the words of Moses...