Dis-Agreement

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

This is the way of those who are foolish, and of those after them who approve their words. Selah  Psalm 49:13  NASB Approve – When is agreement an obvious mistake?  According to this psalm, when it aligns with the choices of the foolish.  Ah, but Hebrew has three words translated “fool,” and they don’t all mean the same…

City Sights

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

Surely Your servants take pleasure in her stones, and feel pity for her dust.  Psalm 102:14  NASB Take pleasure/ feel pity – Taken out of the context of metonym, this verse doesn’t make much sense.  Consider its surface meaning.  When you walk through the City of David (Zion), would you find favor in the stones…