Puzzling over the overlapping images of the faces of the cherubim and the tabernacle furnishings, with the help of James Jordan’s essay on orientation in Revelation. The east-west orientation, lion-bull, is fairly clear. East is the place of the altar, therefore the origin of the bull, who . . . . Continue Reading »
Hebrew has two main words for “south.” The first, negev , refers to the south country of Israel (Exodus 12:9; 13:1, 3, 14; etc.). The other word, teyman , is related to the word yamin , “right hand,” and means “right” as well as “south.” When it means . . . . Continue Reading »
Romans 10:9-10 has a neat chiastic structure: A. If you confess B. With your mouth the Lord Jesus C. And believe D. in your heart that God raised Him E. you will be saved D’. For with the heart C’. One believes unto righteousness B’. And with the mouth A’. Confession is . . . . Continue Reading »
I’m sure I’ve been told this before, but, as Chesterton realized, there’s a certain joy in discovering what you’ve known as if for the first time. Every commentators nowadays notes that the description of the tabernacle in Exodus 25-31 is laid out in seven speeches of Yahweh . . . . Continue Reading »
I offer some reflections on the timeliness of the work of JG Hamann over at http://www.firstthings.com/ . . . . Continue Reading »
The first section of Isaiah 23, verses 1-7, forms a small chiasm: A. Howl; ships of Tarshish, v 1 B. Sidon and Nile, vv 2-4a C. Sea speaks, v 4b B’. Report of Tyre reaches Egypt, v 5 A’. Tarshish; howl, vv 6-7 Two additional notes. First, the B section is marked off by an inclusio . . . . Continue Reading »
Lewis Ayres gave a wonderful paper on early church hermeneutics at a recent conference at Regent College. Part of the point was to place the early fathers - Irenaeus, Clement, Origen, and Tertullian - in their original context, and ask what they were responding to. Predominantly, they were . . . . Continue Reading »
The NASB renders Deuteronomy 30:9 this way: “Then the Lord your God will prosper you abundantly in all the work of your hand, in the offspring of your body and in the offspring of your cattle and in the produce of your ground, for the Lord will again rejoice over you for good, just as He . . . . Continue Reading »
Genesis ends with Jacob blessing his sons (Genesis 49). Deuteronomy ends with Moses blessing the tribes that have descended from Jaob’s sons (Deuteronomy 33). Moses is a new Jacob, the father of the tribes of Israel as Jacob was the father of the tribal ancestors. As the father of a new . . . . Continue Reading »
Deuteronomy 23:14 warns the Israelite army to maintain a sanitation system in the war camp so that Yahweh, who walks in the midst of the camp, will not find any “thing of nakedness.” The very same phrase appears in Deuteronomy 24:1, but there is describes a “thing of . . . . Continue Reading »
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