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Does Job's “covenant with [his] eyes” refer to marriage?
Job's final appeal to God includes this assertion of innocence:
I have covenanted with my eyes
Not to gaze on a maiden.—Job 31:1 (NJPS)
The ESV reads this as a rhetorical question:
I ...
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Does Jesus always use the mustard seed to signify the property of “smallness”?
In Luke, we read:
The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!” And the Lord said, “If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and ...
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Unfamiliar metaphors in Hosea 14:6-7
Hosea 14:5-7 (ESV) reads,
5 I will be like the dew to Israel;
he shall blossom like the lily;
he shall take root like the trees of Lebanon;
6 his shoots shall spread out;
his beauty shall ...
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Does “foundations of the earth” in Job 38:4 refer to just the earth, or is it a metaphor for more?
While asking this question on music at Christianity Stack Exchange, I had simply assumed that Job 38 described music as more primordial than matter, but then I realized I wasn't sure whether the ...
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Who is the bride of Christ?
If the church is the bride of Christ"
Eph. 5, II Cor. 11:2:
I am jealous for you with godly jealousy. For I have betrothed you to
one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to ...
