A study on the Sermon on the Mount. Matt.6:1-18
In this section of our Lord’s Sermon, He used the word “Hypocrite” to describe the activities of certain people, particularly the Scribes and Pharisees. [Read more…]
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A study on the Sermon on the Mount. Matt.6:1-18
In this section of our Lord’s Sermon, He used the word “Hypocrite” to describe the activities of certain people, particularly the Scribes and Pharisees. [Read more…]
by Arthur Eedle
A study on the Sermon on the Mount. Matt.6:19-34
Our Lord spoke about “the evil eye” in Matthew 6, and I began to wonder what He meant by the expression. I was aware that it is sometimes used today, so I looked it up in “Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable“, and this is what I found:- [Read more…]
by Arthur Eedle
In P.T.66 we saw how the original meaning of “evil” (Hebrew RA) was connected with making a loud noise, and breaking in pieces. And it followed on logically that Satan must have chosen the concept of Noise, Display, Showmanship, and Pride as being the BETTER of the two ways. The other way, called “good” (Hebrew TOV) suggested Quietness, Softness, Beauty, and Peace. These qualities were relegated to the lower place by Lucifer. And even today we still refer to the “boss” as “the big noise”, though it is doubtful as to the origin of the expression. [Read more…]
by Arthur Eedle
The importance of this investigation can hardly be over-rated. But if you cannot accept that Adam and Eve were real people, living but a few millennia ago, then of course it is impossible to go further. We are aware that many philosophical ideas have arisen in the last century to cause an atmosphere of mirth, and even mockery, to arise whenever anyone talks about a LITERAL Adam, but as a personal testimony we should like to state the following. (a) “Jesus answered them saying, ‘Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning, made them male and female?'” (Matthew 19:4) (b) “As by ONE MAN sin entered the world, and by means of sin came death, and so death passed upon all men.” (Romans 5:12) (c) “Adam was formed first, and then Eve.” (1 Timothy 2:13) [Read more…]