Volume 28, No.2, May 2017
A Bone of Him Shall Not Be Broken
“For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken” (John 19:36). “There are pictures of the Church which represent her as participating with the Lord in his sacrifice; but the Passover type is not one of these. The Passover lamb represented our Lord Jesus Christ as ‘the Lamb of God, which taketh away the [...]
Forsaken Love, The Letter to Ephesus
“Thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars” (Revelation 2:2). Christianity probably came first to Ephesus with Aquila and Priscilla when Paul made a brief stop there on his second missionary journey (Acts 18:18,19). On his third journey he stayed in the city for about three [...]
Pure Nard, Very Costly
John 12:2-11, Mark 14:3-9, Matthew 14:3-9 It was Jesus’ last Sunday on earth when he and the twelve disciples arrived at Bethany, to the home of Simon the leper. (“Six days before the Passover,” John 12:1. That would be Sunday, six days before the Passover feast the following Saturday.) It is thought likely Simon the leper had died, and his heirs lived there: Martha, [...]
Translating the Rosetta Stone
The right help, at the right time. As Thomas Young was struggling to decipher the Rosetta Stone, a traveler gave him a parcel of Egyptian manuscripts. Among the baffling hieroglyphics he noted three names written in Greek: Apollonius, Antigonus, and Antimachus. As he was puzzling over the rest, a friend gave him some papyri he had purchased at Thebes in 1820. Two of these [...]