IGNATIUS’ SHORTER & LONGER LETTERS TO ROME Paid Members Public
The following is taken from: Romans – Roberts-Donaldson English Translation (Shorter and Longer Recensions). It contains the shorter (Syriac) and longer recensions of St. Ignatius’ letter to the Romans. The post quotes the shorter recension first. All emphasis will be mine. Shorter and Longer Versions Ignatius, who is also called Theophorus,
IGNATIUS’ SHORTER & LONGER LETTERS TO EPHESUS Paid Members Public
The translation employed here is taken from Ephesians – Roberts-Donaldson English Translation (Shorter and Longer Recensions) It contains the shorter (Syriac) and longer recensions of St. Ignatius’ letter to the Romans. The post quotes the shorter recension first. All emphasis will be mine. Shorter and Longer Versions Ignatius, who is also
IGNATIUS’ SHORTER AND LONGER LETTERS TO THE TRALLANS Paid Members Public
The following translation is taken from: Trallians – Roberts-Donaldson English Translation (Shorter and Longer Recensions). It contains the shorter (Syriac) and longer recensions of St. Ignatius’ letter to the Trallans. The post quotes the shorter recension first. All emphasis will be mine. Shorter and Longer Versions Ignatius, who is also called
ZECHARIAH ON THE PIERCING OF GOD Paid Members Public
The citations here are taken from Thomas V. Moore’s The Prophets of the Restoration, Or, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi: A New Translation with Notes, published by Robert Carter & Brothers in 1856. All emphasis will be mine. Y. 10. There is here predicted a great spiritual blessing from God
WATT & THE SATANIC VERSES Paid Members Public
The late William Montgomery Watt was considered one of the greatest scholars of Islam of the 20th century. Watt wasn’t only a professor but a prolific author who wrote some outstanding books on Muhammad and Islam. Moreover, Watt wasn’t a polemicist that sought to discredit Muhammad, but was
ZECH. 12:10 & THE PIERCING OF GOD Paid Members Public
The lengthy exposition of Zechariah 12:10 and 13:7 is extracted from David L. Cooper’s book, The Eternal God Revealing Himself to Suffering Israel and to Lost Humanity, published in 1928 by The Evangelical Press, Publisher, pp. 201-211. All emphasis will be mine. At that time the Lord
THE PRIESTLY MESSIANIC BRANCH Paid Members Public
According to rabbinic tradition one of the Messiah’s titles is “Branch” (tsemach), which is derived from texts such as Jeremiah 23:5-6, Zechariah 3:8 and 6:12-13. What makes this rather interesting is that according to the prophecy of Jeremiah, the Messiah possesses God’s very own unique
JUSTIN MARTYR ON ISAIAH 7:14 Paid Members Public
I shall be extracting segments from Justin Marty’s work Dialogue with Trypho the Jew, which deal particular with Justin’s exegesis of Isaiah 7:14 as it relates to the virginal conception and birth the Messiah. In these citations, Justin brings up multiple issues such as textual variants, specifically