This view is challenged by the fact that the biblical writers usually neglect to specify the form of the cherub, even when specifying other details such as materials, position, and dimensions (Exodus 25:18–20 = 37:7–9; 1 Kings 6:23–28 ≈ 2 Chronicles 3:10–13). This omission indic...
My students are extra crazy. The disorganized ones seem to be even more disorganized. Everyone is busy and trying to keep their head above water. So sometimes they forget to tell me things. Sometimes there is a scheduling conflict. Last minute things come up. Sometimes what I had planned ge...
They plainly consider the speech here introduced as a piece of poetry, and of that species of poetry which we call the elegiac; either from the subject, it being a poem on the fall and death of the king of Babylon, or from the form of the composition, which is of the longer sort of...
1 John 2:27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him. Satan will never aga...
Thomas: The Irish form of Thomas, a biblical name meaning “twin”. Well, isn’t that just perfect? I hurried downstairs to show Mark my discovery and we both smiled acknowledging that our son’s first name was absolutely perfect and would honor the baby that we lost. Without further he...
The next extract gets a bit edgier on the subject, as seen through a Biblical allusion. Gnomes is the second movement of Chinese composer Ge Gan-ru’s String Quartet No. 4, Angel Suite. The composer writes: “Of all my works, this piece is the closest to the Western classical music ...