Quotes About Biblical

The exile marks the disappearance of this language (i.e., Biblical Hebrew) from everyday life and its subsequent use for literary and liturgical purposes only during the Second Temple period.

The language of archaic biblical poetry has obvious connexions with the poetry of the Canaanite north.

The formation of a unified standard (biblical) text probably also involved the elimination of terms and structures that were too archaic to be understood so many centuries after the material had first been composed.

Biblical Hebrew is not a language in the full sense of the word but merely a 'fragment of language'.

There have been various attempts to reconstruct the vocalization and pronunciation of classical biblical Hebrew, which certainly differs considerably from that established by the Masoretes fifteen centuries later.

diluvian adj. another term for DILUVIAL.

What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour.

As delineated in the biblical book of Leviticus, Israel's atonement was achieved, year after year, through the sacrifices brought on that day by the high priest.

Therefore in this more biblical way of looking at things joy (beatitude) is the consequence and not the enemy of law. What Jesus gives us in the Sermon on the Mount, therefore, is that new law that would discipline our desires, our minds, and our bodies so as to make real happiness possible.

no one in the biblical tradition ever is granted an experience of God without being subsequently sent. Scriptural religion is a religion of mission.

Is it possible that St. Paul was inspired of God, when he said: "Let the women learn in silence, with all subjection."—"Neither was the man created for the woman, but the woman for the man?

In Revelation, John frequently used the number seven, indicating completion or perfection.

Now when He had spoken these things, while they watched, He was taken up, and a cloud received Him out of their sight. – Acts 1:9

La meditación bíblica es el arte de hablarnos a nosotros mismos acerca de lo que Dios nos ha dicho; y lo que compartimos con otros es lo que se desborda.

Glorious things are spoken of you, O city of God! – Psalm 87:3

Other religions think in terms of cosmos and nature; Christianity, rooted in Biblical sources, thinks in terms of history.

human tragedy of potentially biblical proportions." He added: "The challenge we face is how to act with sufficient strength and speed to prevent the recession from morphing into a prolonged depression

Biblical hope is the confident expectation that God is willing and able to fulfill the promises he has made to those who trust in him.

Nietzsche's criticism can be reduced to one proposition: modern man has been trying to preserve biblical morality while abandoning biblical faith. That is impossible.

The first word God speaks to human beings in the Bible—God's very first commandment—is "Eat freely" (Genesis 2:16, NASB). The last words out of God's mouth in the Bible—his final command? "Drink freely" (see Revelation 22:17).

When Can A Wife Disobey? When a husband asks his wife to do something directly contrary to Scripture.

The absence of consistent biblical worldview thinking is a key mark of spiritual immaturity.

The biblical basis is the numerous biblical texts which describe prophecy as a spiritual gift that should characterize God's people in the age of the New Covenant.

In most Christian circles you will rarely hear fasting mentioned, and few will have read anything about it. And yet it's mentioned in Scripture more times even than something as important as baptism (about seventy-seven times for fasting to seventy-five for baptism).