by Caleb Lenz(Posted October 26, 2021)(Download as pdf) On Sunday my pastor spoke about the verses in Matthew 5 concerning anger towards a brother (Matthew 5:21–26). He referred also to 1 John 3, and there my eye caught something which convicted me. In 1 John 3:15 we read this (modified KJV): Whoever hates his brother …
by Caleb Lenz Posted October 18, 2021 (Download as pdf) Introduction φιλέω (“fee-leh-oh”) in the Septuagint Reflections on φιλέω μισέω (“mee-seh-oh”) in the Septuagint Reflections on μισέω Overall reflections This is an excursion I did to better understand “love” in Matthew 10:37 and “hate” in Luke 14:26. “He that loves father or mother more than me is not worthy …
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by Caleb Lenz Posted November 26, 2017Last updated September 18, 2021 (Download as pdf) This list started as just an experiment to see how the New Testament would change in sound if we introduced the subjunctive to its pages. (I’ve been a serious Septuagint student for the last three years.) I had no idea when …
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by Caleb Lenz Posted November 10, 2017 (Download as pdf) A “ketiv reading” is an actual word (or words) in the text of the Hebrew Bible, which has a note in the margin (called a “qere reading”) providing a different spelling, or in some cases a different word entirely. In a liturgical setting Jews have …
by Caleb Lenz Posted October 31, 2017 (Download as pdf) In various handwritten manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible (e.g. the Leningrad Codex), the raphe is a dash over a letter (e.g. בֿ) which appears principally over undotted begadkepat letters (בֿ, גֿ, דֿ, כֿ, ךְֿ, פֿ, ףֿ, תֿ) and also over silent letters (e.g. אֿ and הֿ). (A dot commonly goes by the names “dagesh” or “mapiq,” …