Feb 19, 2024
EXODUS 38-39:
Yesterday we heard of the building of the
tabernacle, the Covenant Box, and the other furniture of the Holy
Place and Most Holy Place. Everything was done precisely as God had
described before. The actor ‘he’ as we start this chapter is again
Bezalel.
PSALM 8:
This
psalm is quoted in Hebrews 2 and is frequently misunderstood. “Son
of man” does not refer to Jesus in this Psalm or in Hebrews 2, and
the NLT is correct in not using that term here. This is a psalm of
praise for the awesomeness of God, expressing amazement at the
place of _mankind_ in God's creation.
LUKE 7a:
In
chapter 6 we read the Beatitudes, and Jesus taught about loving
others and not judging them. Jesus taught using the figures of
trees and their fruit, and building houses upon a rock
foundation.
One of the most frequently misquoted verses in Scripture was included in yesterday’s portion of Luke 6, “Do not judge others and you will not be judged.” But if we take that to the extreme, we would not be able to recognize good and bad people, as Jesus talks about in verse 45. And there are many other places where Christians are called upon to make judgments— especially those of us in leadership. But the key would be not bringing judgment against others if we might be found to be guilty of the same sin.
NLT Translation
notes:
Exo.
38:26 This silver came from the tax collected from each man
registered in the census. (The tax [was/is]
one beka, which is half a shekel,
based on the sanctuary shekel.) The tax was collected from 603,550
men who had reached their twentieth birthday.
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Ps.
8:1 O LORD , our Lord, [how your majestic glory is
visible everywhere on earth!//O LORD, our Lord, your majestic name
fills the earth.]
[This
is a metonymy on the name of the Lord. (Meaning that 'name' stands
for the whole person of God, like 'white house' can stand for the
current USA government administration..) Most of the time such
metonymy simply refers to the whole person of the Lord, not just
his name. In some places it can refer to the Lord’s reputation— as
NET translates here. The 'Lord’s name' metonymy is everywhere in
Scripture. Although English clearly uses metonymy, we don't so
often use it for 'name'. Now that I think of it, a good way to
translate this line would be, “O Lord, our Lord, your glorious
handwriting is visible everywhere on
earth!”]
4 what
are mere mortals that you should think
about
them, human beings
that you should care for
them?
5 Yet you,
[O God,//0] made
them only a little lower
than
[Yourself/God] and crowned them with glory and
honor.
9 O LORD , our
Lord, [how your majestic glory
is
visible everywhere on earth!//O LORD, our
Lord, your majestic name fills the earth.]
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Luk.7:2 At that time
[a/the] highly
valued slave of a Roman officer a was sick and near
death.
9 When Jesus heard
this, he was amazed. Turning to the crowd that was following him,
he said, “I tell you, I haven’t [found someone fully
believing//seen faith] like this in all
Israel!”
15 Then the
dead [young man//boy] sat up and began to talk! And Jesus gave him
back to his mother.
22 [He//Then he]
told John’s disciples, “Go back to
John and tell him what you have seen and heard—the blind see, the
lame walk, the lepers are cured, the deaf hear, the dead are raised
to life, and [0/the] Good News is being preached to the
poor.
33 For John the
Baptist didn’t [join with you in//spend his time] eating bread or
drinking wine, and you say, ‘He’s possessed by a demon.’ 34
[I, the//The] Son
of Man, on the other hand, [join you in//0]
feasts and drinks, and you
say, [I am// ‘He’s] a glutton and a drunkard, and a friend of tax
collectors and other sinners!’
39 When the Pharisee who had invited him saw
this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would
know what kind of woman is touching him. She’s a sinner!
[(And he would tell her to stop!)//0]”
47
“I tell you, her sins—and they are many—have been forgiven, so she
has shown me much love. But a person who is forgiven
[only a//0] little
shows only little love.”
49 The men at the table said among themselves,
“[What kind of man is this//Who is this
man] , that he goes around
forgiving sins?!”
[The
answer to “Who is this man” is “Jesus.” It is more natural in
English to make this rhetorical question as I have
here.]
50 And Jesus said
to the woman, “[You are saved because you fully
believe in me.//Your faith has saved you] [. Go/;
go] in
peace.”
[In English,
'faith' has so many fuzzy meanings, that it makes a verse like this
very unclear. Jesus did NOT use 'faith' to mean such things as
'inner fortitude', 'vague hope', 'blind trust', denominational
faith, or many other meanings. In Greek, 'faith' is simply the noun
form of 'believe'.]
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