A Corrected Beatitude

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

“Give heed to my cry, for I am brought very low; deliver me from my persecutors, for they are too strong for me.” Psalm 142:6 NASB Persecutors – “Blessed are those who have been persecuted for the sake of righteousness.” That familiar phrase found in the teaching of Yeshua in Matthew, chapter five, should have…

Hebrew in Greek (2)

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

Blessed are those who have been persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 5:10 Persecuted – Matthew writes with Hebrew idioms, not Greek concepts.  Sometimes the difference between these two worldviews makes all the difference in our translations into English.  When it does, we often discover that entire…