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God Squad: Psalm 23 … the next two words
Marc Gellman
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Last week in response to M from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, who is a member of the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church’s Bible Study Group, I began a study guide for the 23rd Psalm. I may offer study guides for other Psalms and biblical texts but as I suspected, I only got through the first two words, “The Lord is my shepherd” before the column ran out of space! Today, I am hopeful to get through at least the next two words, “I shall not want.”
The King James Version translates these two Hebrew words (lo echsar) as, “I shall not want” but the Hebrew for wanting is hafatz not echsar, which would mean that the proper translation should be, “The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not lack.”
OKIE IN EXILE Testing
Bobby Neal Winters
When Jesus came into Peter’s house, he saw Peter’s mother-in-law lying in bed with a fever. He touched her hand and the fever left her, and she got up and began to wait on him. Matthew 8:14-15
My online Bible Study Group has been going through the book of Matthew. We did the Lord’s Prayer as a part of that; it took us three weeks and we could’ve done more but the teacher told us we had to go on.
Those of you who know the Lord’s Prayer know the line “lead us not into temptation.” This always causes discussion. How could God lead us into temptation?
It will be a reminder that after 55 years,
Dei Verbum the document on Divine Revelation that the Second Vatican Council issued in November 1965 remains alive and well!
But even more so, that the Sacred Scriptures are still alive, even after thousands of years.
That s what most Catholic parishes around the world will testify to this weekend when they celebrate Sunday of the Word of God .
Those of us in Australia, currently on summer holidays, will do so on February 7.
Pope Francis fittingly announced the establishment of Word of God Sunday on September 30, 2019 the liturgical feast day and 1600th anniversary of the death of Saint Jerome.