Sometimes we’re silent in God’s presence because we have no excuses. We know we’ve done wrong and deserve whatever chastisement we’re experiencing. We understand the author of Lamentations when he says, “The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him. It is...
There is a reason, I think, that this woman remains unnamed and silent in the narrative: her whole existence is, as it were, reduced to this act. This act is herlife-act, that by which her whole life and existence is characterised and understood. There is abeingand adoingwhich cannot...
“When the canon closed on the OT [Old Testament] after the time of Ezra and Nehemiah, there followed four hundred ‘silent years’ when no prophet spoke God’s revelation in any form. That silence was broken by John the Baptist as God spoke once more prior to the NT [New Testament] ...
In the court system much depends on the truthfulness of the witnesses. But integrity is vital in all areas of life and in all relationships. Yet, too often, a person can be “bribed” by a desire for peace, being liked, or personal gain. We can become “false witnesses” by telling p...
This section was taken from "Lessons of these 400 Silent Years" by John Barnett and Discover the Book Ministries (used by permission). Churches That Accept the Apocrypha Books as Canon The Catholic Church Since the Council of Rome in 382 (and reaffirmed by the Council of Trent in 1546),...
Chrysostom, is wholly silent on the subject, and so are the two Cyrils; equally silent are the Latins, Hilary, Pacian, Zeno, Lucifer, Sulpicius, and St. Ambrose.St. Augustine has written more on the Church, its unity and authority, than all the other Fathers put together. Yet, from ...
and on earth peace, goodwill toward men. And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us. And they cam...
63But Jesus remained silent. The high priest said to him, “I charge you under oath by the living God: Tell us if you are the Messiah, the Son of God.” 64“You have said so,” Jesus replied. “But I say to all of you: From now on you will see the Son of Man sitting at ...
IT stood it STOOD and was silent it STANDS and is silent and we knew we had erred in our hubris the dark voice was put to death for its lies and we stand with the new GREAT ONE and IT stands with us forever ‡ Licensing / Citation tale...
“In the trial where Pilate knew very well that the man before him was not guilty, he, for political reasons, had to bring in a verdict of guilty. And in this, Jesus was silent. We learn a good deal from this in our lives when enemies contend against us and when we are falsely ac...