Through His aid hearts are lifted up, the weak are held by the hand, and they who are advancing are brought to perfection. Shining upon those that are cleansed from every spot, He makes them spiritual by fellowship with Himself. Just as when a sunbeam falls on bright and transparent bodies, they themselves become brilliant too, and shed forth a fresh brightness from themselves, so souls wherein the Spirit dwells, illuminated by the Spirit, themselves become spiritual, and send forth their grace to others.
St. Basil: 329-379 AD
Saturday, June 23, 2007
Thursday, June 14, 2007
PSALM 100
All right, so I'm not exactly a Hebrew scholar. But in my preparations for this Sunday's sermon I discovered some fascinating innuendos in Psalm 100 that aren't apparent to the casual English reader. Take a look at Psalm 100... The Blomquistian Translation:
1 Create ear-splitting sounds and alarms of triumph, ye turf-dwellers; execute labor in your service with gladness, to the Eternal Deity and come into his increasing attention - his turning, facing countenance – singing and shouting victories to his Name.
2 Understand, be absolutely certain, the Eternal is our God; it is he who made us, not we ourselves; we are his tribe, his attendants and the sheep of his pasture.
3 Enter his gates extending your hands in praise, confession, and adoration; go into his courts excitingly lauding him with music; revere him with extended hands, kneeling towards him as your act of adoration.
4 For the Eternal is wildly good, fully bountiful in every way; and his covenanted loving-kindness exists - far exceeds - outside any identifiable time reference of your minds. His stable, active truth remains firm, and continues through all revolutions of time.
1 Create ear-splitting sounds and alarms of triumph, ye turf-dwellers; execute labor in your service with gladness, to the Eternal Deity and come into his increasing attention - his turning, facing countenance – singing and shouting victories to his Name.
2 Understand, be absolutely certain, the Eternal is our God; it is he who made us, not we ourselves; we are his tribe, his attendants and the sheep of his pasture.
3 Enter his gates extending your hands in praise, confession, and adoration; go into his courts excitingly lauding him with music; revere him with extended hands, kneeling towards him as your act of adoration.
4 For the Eternal is wildly good, fully bountiful in every way; and his covenanted loving-kindness exists - far exceeds - outside any identifiable time reference of your minds. His stable, active truth remains firm, and continues through all revolutions of time.
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