Know Your Bible 29
From Nucleus - January 1999 : (p39)
Answers
- Simeon and Levi insisted on the circumcision of the Shechemites, ostensibly to prepare for intermarriage. Instead, Jacob’s sons took disproportionate revenge for their sisters’ rape by slaughtering them during their convalescence (Gn 34).
- The teaching of those who indulge in godless chatter is likened to gangrene (2 Tim 2:16-17).
- Barzillai declined to follow David to Jerusalem as he was eighty years old and felt he would be a burden. He complained of failing taste and hearing (2 Sa 19:34-36).
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- ‘Charm is deceptive, beauty is fleeting’, but what is to be sought in the wife (or husband) of noble character?
- According to Paul’s letter to a slave owner, what fringe benefit accompanies sharing our faith?
- In what sense does Peter encourage us to emulate neonates?
Also in this Edition:
- Editorial
- News Review
- Wide Open
- Post-Coital Contraception
- Abortion and Conscientious Objection
- Second Opinion
- Bringing Faith and Medicine Together
- Faith in Practice: Obstetrics and Gynaecology
- Contraceptives' Mode of Action
- Short-Term Medical Missions
- Fishing the Net
- Differential Diagnosis 27
- Letters
- Matters of Life and Death (Book Review)
- Practising Faith In A Pagan World (Book Review)
- Know Your Bible 29