Psalms 144:1
I am far from thinking that this sentence applies exclusively to what
we designate spiritual conflicts. I should suppose that David, or
whoever the writer of the Psalm was, gave thanks that he had been able
to fight with the Philistines and the Ammonites. No one who had
learned Jewish... [ Continue Reading ]
Psalms 144:12
I. These two figures express, in different ways, the notions of fixity
and substance. Both plant and column are fixed and steady. The plant
is fixed by its roots into the earth, the column fixed into the
building. Life must be rooted in fixed belief in God and the way of
reconciliatio... [ Continue Reading ]