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- Genesis 11:6-25 ● Gen 11:6 . . and Yhvh said: If, as one people with one language for all, this is how they have begun to act, then nothing that they may propose to do will be out of their reach. I don't think Yhvh objected to the people's unity per se. I mean, after all; it's Christ's wish...

- Ecclesiastes 8:14-17 ● Ecc 8:14 . . here is a frustration that occurs in the world: sometimes an upright man is requited according to the conduct of the scoundrel; and sometimes the scoundrel is requited according to the conduct of the upright. I say all that is frustration. Nowhere is that...

- 199) Eph 6:4 . . Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of The Lord. We're not talking about religious training here-- the focus is upon a daddy's parenting style. Despotism, tyranny, and unfairness are not The Lord's way of raising...

- Genesis 11:4-5 ● Gen 11:4 . . And they said: Come, let us build us a city, and a tower with its top in the sky, to make a name for ourselves; else we shall be scattered all over the world. Magnificent cities have a way of attracting tourism, commerce, and industry. People want to come and...

- Ecclesiastes 8:9-13 ● Ecc 8:9 . . All these things I observed; I noted all that went on under the sun, while men still had authority over men to treat them unjustly. Solomon's venue throughout the book of Ecclesiastes is "under the sun". It's important to always keep that in mind or risk...

- 197) Eph 6:1 . . Children, obey your parents in The Lord, for this is right. The koiné Greek word for "obey" in that verse is interesting. It's hupakouo (hoop-ak-oo'-o) which means to pay attention; viz: to heed; to mind. The primary reason given for children minding their parents is simply...

- Genesis 11:1-3 ● Gen 11:1 . . Everyone on earth had the same language and the same words. The Hebrew word for "language" is from saphah (saw-faw') which means: the lip. The one for "words" is from dabar (daw-baw') which means: a word (as spoken or written) Spoken languages are a combination...

- Ecclesiastes 8:6-8 ● Ecc 8:6-7 . . for there is a time and a judgment for everything. Yet it is a great affliction for man that he is ignorant of what is to come; for who will make known to him how it will be? We have to expect to get caught up sometimes in circumstances beyond our control...

- 194) Eph 5:25-27 . . Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, that he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but...

- Genesis 10:1-32 ● Gen 10:1 . .These are the lines of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah: sons were born to them after the Flood. Chapter ten is a tiresome list of genealogies that some have found interesting enough to devote entire books; generating a catalogue of nations connecting...

- Ecclesiastes 8:1-5 ● Ecc 8:1-2a . .Who is like the wise man, and who knows the meaning of the adage: A man's wisdom lights up his face, so that his deep discontent is dissembled? -- I do! There's another way to say some of that. "Crafty people are good at hiding their true feelings."...

- 193) Eph 5:23-24 . . For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. People-- Christians, no less --have tried to circumvent that...

- Genesis 9:25b-27 ● Gen 9:25b . . the lowest of slaves shall he be to his brothers. That's a very derogatory remark, and more likely a colloquialism or a metaphor rather than a literal prediction; sort of like the one God made regarding the Serpent; that it would crawl on its belly and eat...

- Ecclesiastes 7:28-29 ● Ecc 7:28a . . As for what I sought further but did not find, Apparently, the thing that Solomon sought further (in addition to the investigations he has made up to this point) was a human being free from the foibles of human nature. Is it actually possible that the...

- 191) Eph 5:21 . . Submit to one another out of respect for Christ. The koiné Greek word for "submit" is hupotasso (hoop-ot-as'-so) which means: to subordinate (as a verb) which is just the opposite of dominance, equality, and/or rivalry and competition. A workable synonym for the kind of...

- Genesis 9:22b-25a ● Gen 9:22b . . and told his two brothers outside. Ham wasn't just a little kid who stumbled into his parents' bedroom. He was a grown man, married, and quite possibly by this time his son Canaan was already born. Catching his dad naked was probably an innocent enough...

- Ecclesiastes 7:23-27 ● Ecc 7:23-25 . . All this I tested with wisdom. I thought I could fathom it, but it eludes me. [The secret of] what happens is elusive and deep, deep down; who can discover it? I put my mind to studying, exploring, and seeking wisdom and the reason of things, and to...

- 185) Eph 5:14 . .Wake up, O sleeper! . . rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you. The word "rise" is translated from the Greek anistemi (an-is'-tay-mee) which basically means to stand up (literally or figuratively -- transitive or intransitive) A corpse cannot stand up on its own...

- Genesis 9:19-22a ● Gen 9:20a . . Noah, a tiller of the soil, There was a time when a large percentage of Americans grew their own food, but it's come to the point when some kids don't even know that where their food comes from. For example; as a young graduate student, Steven L. Hopp...

- Ecclesiastes 7:19-22 ● Ecc 7:19 . .Wisdom makes one wise man more powerful than ten rulers in a city. Far too many city managers are neither sensible nor apparently capable of exercising good judgment. They say that two heads are better than one, but in this case ten are inferior to one...