You can do the math for yourself using the lifespans of the patriarchs in Genesis, and it does. For another example of Methuselah being used to mean “his death shall bring” see Psalm 43:3 in a concordance that gives you the actual Hebrew words, like BlueletterBible.com Lamech is the...
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Having proved that the "Paraclete" of St. John's Gospel does not and cannot mean either "consoler" or "advocate," nor any other thing at all, and that it is a corrupted form of Periqlytos, we shall now proceed to discuss the real signification of it. 2. Periqlytos etymologically an...
I had only one real beef with the excellent Paul Mason’s most recently printed reflection on ‘the graduate without a future’, but it’s the same beef I have with almost every recent lamentation on the state we’re in: lack of attention to class as key. Given Mason’s interesting and...
Chapter 2. The Four Noble Truths 第二章 四圣谛 The First Noble Truth : "Dukkha" 第一圣谛:苦 The heart of Buddha's teaching lies in the Four Noble Truths (Cattari Ariyasaccani) 在佛陀的教法中,四圣谛可算是其中的心要了。 which he expounded in his very first sermon to his old col...
and then interpreted to mean that the big Self is the lord of the small self. 然后又将偈文解释为 大「我」是小我的主宰。 First of all, this translation is incorrect. 先说,这翻译根本不正确。 Atta here does not mean self in the sense of soul. ...
Indeed, when one hopes to be loved, does this mean we simply want to be a source of pleasure? Not that alone. We like being valued for ourselves, through thick and thin. Someone who merely values us for pleasure and drops us when that passes would seem to merely be using us. Many ...
I mean Democrats. Once again, we have encountered someone who does not know the Right from the Left in American politics. Ho hum, heavy sigh and here we go again. See the argument after the Elitism Vs. Palinism page. Regards,Vic...
For it is written: And David slew them from the 'neshef' to the evening 'ereb of the next day,14 and does not this mean, from the 'morning dawn' to the evening? — No. [It means:] from the [one] eventide to the [next] eventide. If so, let him write: From neshef to nes...
Chapter 2. The Four Noble Truths 第二章 四圣谛 The First Noble Truth : "Dukkha" 第一圣谛:苦 The heart of Buddha's teaching lies in the Four Noble Truths (Cattari Ariyasaccani) 在佛陀的教法中,四圣谛可算是其中的心要了。 which he expounded in his very first sermon to his old colle...