Has it ever struck you that there is only one verse in the whole Bible, both testaments, that says “I love you” and has God as the object of the verb “love”? You might think of the restoration of Peter, in John 21, where Jesus goads Peter three times into saying “I love you” toContinue reading “I love you, Lord?”
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Psalm 1 again: verses 1 through 3
Blessed is the man ESV retains the traditional masculine singular because unlike pluralized rewordings it preserves the possibility of figural reading as referring to Jesus Christ as the ideal human who fits the description given. And I guess somehow “Blessed is the human” or “the person” doesn’t quite have the same poetic resonance. Some ofContinue reading “Psalm 1 again: verses 1 through 3”
Verba Sparsa 