a sacrifice to redeem us to God by his blood. John came as a preacher of repentance, yet he told his followers that they were to look for the pardon of their sins to Jesus only, and to his death. It agrees with God's glory to pardon all who depend on the atoning sacrifice of ...
Israel was at once under the Altar, the Ark of the Covenant, the waters that purified, the Law of Moses, only to soon breakdown in the chaos of civil war, to reject its Messiah and ending with the destruction of its Temple by Rome in a time when Jerusalem was flooded with the citizen...
Sirach goes on to identify Wisdom as “the law that Moses commanded us” (24:23), a point to which I’ll return later. The words of Wisdom in Sirach 24:19-21 are reminiscent, not only of Jesus’ invitation in Matthew 11:28 to “Come to me,” but also of his offer of living wa...
a significant place where God gave His word to Moses and speaks to him in a still small voice. Allow me to observe that it is easy to think that we are hearing God’s voice when we see miraculous demonstrations of wind, earthquake and...
/ Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who did not sin in the way that Adam transgressed. He is a pattern of the One to come.Revelation 3:10Because you have kept My command to persevere, I will also keep you from the hour of testing that is about to...
Michelangelo to create for him. (The tomb of Julius II was never actually installed in the new St. Peter’s; the scale of the original design was reduced considerably, and it now resides at the Church of St. Pietro in Vincoli. The famous “horned Moses” statue is a part of the tomb...
Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the LORD drove back the sea with a strong east wind that turned it into dry land. So the waters were divided, / and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with walls of water on their right and on ...
F-l-x:—Yes, you should offer your arm to a lady when seeing her home, but don’t keep her standing too long at the gate while you say good night. (FELIX, ENRAGED:—“I never asked such a question.”) C-c-l-y:—No, it is not polite to use “Holy Moses” or “dodgasted...
Noah was the son of Lamech and the ninth generation of Adam (Genesis 5). He was a preacher of righteousness (2 Peter), and he was the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Following the flood, Noah planted a vineyard, and his sons repopulated the Earth....
9For it is written in the Law of Moses: “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.” Is it about oxen that God is concerned? 10Surely he says this for us, doesn’t he? Yes, this was written for us, because whoever plows and threshes should be able to do so ...