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  • Nehemia says 1Kings 15:4, on the screen it’s 1Kings 15:14 but the actual verse is 2 Chronicles 15:17…

    Come on editors. You can do better.

  • I was wondering if you could help me concerning ‘Nesqu bar’ in terms of ‘Kiss the son’/’kiss purity’.

    Could that bee interpreted as “kiss IN purity”? It seems to me that Judas’ betrayal of Yeshua with a kiss is an acting out of the violation of this idea, and (through context), unifies the Jewish and Christian perspectives…That is to say…he did not embrace purity in Kissing the Son.

  • זֵַכי “pure” according to Brown-Driver-Briggs means “literally [and actually literally!], pure, i.e. unmixed, free from foreign substances.” This idea resonates very well with its other definition “figurative, pure, clean, righteous.” The “foreign substances” if used in the figurative sense would be sin (Job 33:19). Yet when used with heart (which we don’t see used in the Tanakh), I think Nehemia was spot on when he said that it means being right with God, even if you fail to walk with God. In the NT, Paul really hits on this idea in Rom. 7:7-8:11 in how he wants to do what is right (7:18) yet fails to do it (7:19), but he knows that he is right with God (7:25). However, our actions are still a sign of whether we’re pure or right before God (see John 15:1-9; same Greek word in v. 3 as in Mat. 5:8.)

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