Category: grace
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Restore Us
When God’s grace is compared to “watercourses in the Negev”. This is what they mean, btw. You don’t need to know Hebrew. God’s love is pouring down on us like this. Over and over. And Over.
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Mercy Sakes Alive
POPE BENEDICT XVI has this pedagogical trick, pardon the word, of pulling back from a Biblical pericope to look at the context in which the writer has placed the words of Jesus. It’s not a trick really, but so few people do it. It’s a logical and yet entirely different way to look at scripture…
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Psalms 118 and 136
POP QUIZ! What do these two psalms have in common? They have the same response line (below in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin): ki l’olam khasdo כִּי לְעוֹלָם חַסְדּוֹ׃ ὅτι εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα τὸ ἔλεος αὐτοῦ (h)oti eis ton aiona to eleos autou quoniam in saeculum misericordia ejus. For Ps 136, especially, it’s an interesting line. It’s usually translated as “for his…
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Two Words for One
READING SCRIPTURE IN Multiple translations leads one back to the original languages sooner or later. There is a danger there: as my friend, Steve once said, “Nothing is more dangerous to the faith than a man with an interlinear Bible and a Greek dictionary.” The same is seemingly true with Hebrew, but we’ll get to…
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