"For there's nothing as powerful or as great
As when a husband & wife, united by oneness of mind in their thinking,
Keep their home together—a great bane to their enemies,
A blessing to their friends, & their renown is on everyone's lips.”
Odysseus' great praise of marriage.
“Turn my eyes from looking at worthless things;
and give me life in your ways.” Psalm 119:37
That is, change my desires so that I don’t find compelling pleasure in worthless things.
Happy International Septuagint Day to all who celebrate! In 2006, the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies established February 8 as International Septuagint Day, a day to celebrate the Septuagint & encourage its study. What are you reading to celebrate?
"We never read that Jesus Christ was more cheerful in all His life on earth than when He was going to lay down His life for His enemies:
now He thanked God (Luke 22:19),
now He sang (Matt 26:30)."
-John Bunyan, Works (Carlisle, PA: @banneroftruth, 1692/1991), 2: 17.
"Bury yourself in a lexicon and arise in the presence of God."
—Sir Edwyn Hoskyns, as quoted in Stephen Dempster, Dominion and Dynasty: A Theology of the Hebrew Bible (ed. D. A. Carson; vol. 15; New Studies in Biblical Theology; Downers Grove, IL: @ivpress, 2003), 26, fn. #22.
Happy International Septuagint Day to all who celebrate! In 2006, the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies established February 8 as International Septuagint Day, a day to celebrate the Septuagint & encourage its study. What are you reading to celebrate?
Dr. Alan Millard discovered the Epic of Atrahasis written in 1635 BC. It is one of three Babylonian flood stories which parallel Genesis in the creation of mankind and the flood. He states it is likely that Sumerian and Genesis accounts stem from a common ancient account.
THREAD: How Judges & Ruth fit together
Of course, Ruth is set in the time of Judges.
It begins, ‘In the days when the judges judged...’
But the connections go deeper...
The hand of the diligent will rule,
while the lazy will be put to forced labor.
Anxiety weighs down the human heart,
but a good word cheers it up (Prov 12:24-25).
Diligence without anxiety.