This is what the Lord commanded: “Tomorrow is to be a day of rest, a holy Sabbath to the Lord. So, bake what you want to bake and boil what you want to boil. Save whatever is left and keep it until morning.” So, they saved it until morning, as Moses commanded, and it did ...
The subject matter of the play is intimately related to that of Moses und Aron –the exodus of the Chosen People to the Promised Land. But while the opera deals with the ancient mythological prototype of this quest for a homeland, the play has a firmly contemporary, even slight futuristic ...
If that dominion be real that being is the real God; if it be fictitious, a false God; if it be supreme, a supreme God." Newton also wrote a discussion on two other texts that Athanasius had attempted to corrupt. This work has not been preserved. He believed that not all the books ...
Carl Switzer, best known for his role as Alfalfa from theOur Gangcomedies, was shot to death during an alleged argument over $50 on January 21, 1959. His assailant, Moses Samuel Stiltz, claimed the actor threw a knife at him across the room so he shot Switzer in the stomach. JonBenét...
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...
even with his dying exhortations to do exactly that. So let’s take this as the setting of this parshah: Moses, the anxious leader/father figure, worrying about the people who have been in his care and under his guidance for 40 years, and how they’re going to function once he’s no...
glory that he had had with the Father, this erupted almost spontaneously into this transfiguration experience. Certainly this was a crisis in his life as he saw from that mount of transfiguration his own destiny, and it was on that mount that he talked with Elijah and Moses concerning his ...
glory that he had had with the Father, this erupted almost spontaneously into this transfiguration experience. Certainly this was a crisis in his life as he saw from that mount of transfiguration his own destiny, and it was on that mount that he talked with Elijah and Moses concerning his ...
” Priest of the most high God — This title given him by Moses, and here taken notice of by the apostle, implies that he had been appointed to that office in a solemn and public manner; and, of consequence, “that there was a priest divinely appointed to officiate for the worshippers...
‘Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery. Now in the law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?’ They said this to test him, so that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger ...