Volume 18, No.3, Aug. 2007
Harmonizing Habakkuk 3:9
"Thy bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of the tribes, even thy word. Selah ..." (Habakkuk 3:9, AV) Considered by most translators and commentators as an obscure and difficult to translate passage, Habakkuk 3:9 has confounded interpreters for centuries. The United Bible Societies Bible Translator Handbook states that "with so many possibilities to be found in reputable translations (and many other [...]
Newton: Bible Student and Scientist
Isaac Newton (1642-1727) was born in Lincolnshire on Christmas day nearly two months premature, and posthumous to his father. In the superstition of the day, all three of these circumstances were considered to portend a child of exceptional abilities, and so he was. He was born in the last year a witch was publicly burned at the stake in England. When he went to [...]
Of the Day of Judgment and World to Come
Extracted from Yahuda Ms. 6, folio 12-19, part of The Synchronisms of the Three Parts of the Prophetick Interpretation (Sotheby Catalogue, Lot 244). RESTITUTION The mystery of the restitution of all things is to be found in all the Prophets: which makes me wonder with great admiration that so few Christians of our age can find it there. They understand not that the final [...]