Today’s Word

Canceling the Debt

For David.  To You, O LORD, I lift up my heart.  Psalm 25:1  Robert Alter translation To You – Lamentations and Psalms use a form of poetry called acrostic.  In poems of this type, each new line begins with the next letter of the Hebrew alphabet.  In this psalm, every letter is represented except the…
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The God Word

All the paths of the Lord are lovingkindness and truth
to those who keep His covenant and His testimonies.  Psalm 25:10  NASB Lovingkindness – By now you certainly know the difficulties of translating hesed.  And you certainly know just how important this word is.  Hesed is the single most important expression of the character of YHWH. …
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Mining for Gold

The Lord God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. Genesis 2:22 NASB Brought – “bôʾ, the fourth most frequently occurring verb in the ot, is used 2570 times, for the most part with everyday meanings of “go, arrive, enter a house,” or,…
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Recovery

The Lord God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. Genesis 2:22 NASB Had taken from – The purpose of marriage is unity.  Genesis 2:24 tells us that we are joined together in order to become one flesh.  But it isn’t just about…
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Functional Equivalence

“and a second is like it:  You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”  Matthew 22:39  ESV Like it – The Greek word homoia is a word about equivalence.  It means “of the same kind” or “belonging equally.”  It is often used in rabbinic teaching in the phrase, “Who is like?”  We need to recognize that…
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Sex on Demand

If he takes to himself another woman, he may not reduce her food, her clothing, or her conjugal rights.  Exodus 21:10  NASB Conjugal rights – If you were ever to doubt the upside-down nature of the Hebraic view of the role of women, this verse would surely seem to confirm that the Hebrew culture stood…
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