Volume 35, No.3, Sep. 2024
Cain and Abel
Genesis 4 The account of Cain and Abel in Genesis 4 raises a number of questions in the mind of the reader, among which are these three. (1) When Cain murdered his brother, why was the penalty not death? Why “a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth?” And then, though he was not remorseful, why did God grant him a blessing? (2) Why [...]
Chiasms, Memorable Teaching
“For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little” (Isaiah 28:10). Effective teaching employs repetition, precept upon precept as noted in Isaiah. Sadly, as the Isaiah context shows, the immediate hearers seem to have included those slow of heart. A special style of effective repetitive teaching called Chiasms appears throughout the [...]
The Golden Calf – Exodus 32 and Chiasms
What has happened to Moses? We do not see him, The mob was blind with frustration. The people assembled unto Aaron; it was near forty days since Moses had ascended the fearful mountain and since then there was no word, no signal, no sighting of Moses. Whispers grew into a mob’s roar that demanded to know, “What has happened to Moses? We do not [...]