Tag Info

Metaphors are a pithy way to express truth, and as such are heavily employed in proverbs such as this one, and indeed in all of wisdom literature. This metaphor should communicate strongly to anyone familiar with rope (or, interestingly, in our own day, cable). A rope woven from two strands is so easily unravelled that its disintegration is automatic—even ...

If we are to think like the first-century hearers, we must recognize that the importance of the number fourteen is that it is a multiple of (that ever-so-important number) seven. Matthew is implying that the entire flow of God's history of creating a people for himself shows that Jesus the Christ is our Sabbath rest. Forty-two, not Fourteen Three sets of ...

Ecclesiastes is a contemplation of meaning by the philosopher king (notionally Solomon), who calls himself Qoheleth. Unlike most wisdom literature in the Bible, which is phrased as dialog between the wise teacher and the student reader1, this text is semi-autobiographical meditations that dwell on the vanity of various aspects of life. The crux of the book ...

We have to look at the verse in a broader context. The whole book is a collection of wisdom from the perspective of one who has lived a full life. Within this chapter, the lead-up to this verse is: 8 There is one that is alone, and he hath not a second; yea, he hath neither son nor brother; yet is there no end of all his labour, neither is his eye ...

Wikipedia also notes one more "pair": Chapters 9 to 14 This section consists of two "oracles" or "burdens": The first oracle (ch. 9-11) gives an outline of the course of God's providential dealings with his people down to the time of the coming of the Messiah. The second oracle (ch. 12-14) points out the glories that await Israel in "the ...

I have read several commentaries on this portion of scripture and see it causes a lot of confusion because the most probable meaning is that it is not associated with the first coming of Messiah but the second coming. Originally I may have fell into the 'destruction of Jerusalem' trap because Jesus spoke about the destruction of Jerusalem while sitting on ...

This portion of Zechariah seems to bring varied views from the commentators, some think the four winds represents angels directing the four monarchies that overturned the known world starting with the Babylonian, Persian, Greek and then Roman empire (I lean to this) Some just take a higher abstraction as representing figurative counsels and decrees of God. ...

Before explaining the meaning of the chariots and the direction they take it would be could to identify why they are ‘going out to the four winds of heaven, after presenting themselves before the LORD’. As this part is not fully explained within the text it would be helpful to refer to similar ideas in the Bible: Daniel said: "In my vision at night I ...

The Totality of Two Jon Ericson claimed in his answer that two may be a number of completeness. At first I found this surprising, but I begin to find myself persuaded; and because technical terms have a power of persuasion in themselves, I have called it binary completeness. One may think of two sides of a coin, or two people in a marriage, or any number of ...

In Sensus plenior, the number two refers to a dualism of heaven and earth. In this dualism both are good, unlike in other dualisms. When there are two things, they represent the dual nature of the thing. Two trees, since Christ is the tree, represent his dual nature as God and Man. The left is the side of the flesh as represented by the clean animal, the ...