Psalm 95:7b-11 Today, if only you would hear his voice,
8 “Do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah,
as you did that day at Massah in the wilderness,
9 where your ancestors tested me;
they tried me, though they had seen what I did.
10 For forty years I was angry with that generation;
I said, ‘They are a people whose hearts go astray,
and they have not known my ways.’
11 So I declared on oath in my anger,
‘They shall never enter my rest.’”
Psalm 8:4 what is mankind that you are mindful of them,
human beings that you care for them?
5 You have made them a little lower than the angels
and crowned them with glory and honor.
6 You made them rulers over the works of your hands;
you put everything under their feet:
Psalm 22:22 I will declare your name to my people;
in the assembly I will praise you.
Isaiah 8:17 I will wait for the Lord,
who is hiding his face from the descendants of Jacob.
I will put my trust in him.
18 Here am I, and the children the Lord has given me. We are signs and symbols in Israel from the Lord Almighty, who dwells on Mount Zion
(This was my first teaching the adult Sunday School class some years ago, hence the original power point background.)
My guess is that Aquila and Priscilla taught Apollos, who wrote it down, and Paul added input, especially chapter 13.
Back to the beginning of the introduction:
This is all one sentence in Greek, and together with Genesis 1:1-4 and John 1:1-14 are some of the best opening paragraphs of all literature, and should be taught in all English classes at least once.
Psalm 2:7 I will proclaim the Lord’s decree: He said to me, “You are my son;
today I have become your father.
Deuteronomy 32:43 (ESV) “Rejoice with him, O heavens;
bow down to him, all gods, (Septuagint and Dead Sea scrolls, this part missing from the Masoretic text) for he avenges the blood of his children]
and takes vengeance on his adversaries.
He repays those who hate him
and cleanses his people’s land.”
Could it be that the Masoretic text has omitted this part of the verse to lessen the divine aspect of Jesus? Anyhow, the author reminds the Hebrews that the Dead Sea scrolls and the Septuagint contain this phrase.
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