κρείσσων γὰρ σοφία λίθων πολυτελῶν,
πᾶν δὲ τίμιον οὐκ ἄξιον αὐτῆς ἐστιν.
indeed wisdom is great than expensive jewels, and nothing is as valuable as it.
glossary:
Το πρωινό είναι το σημαντικότερο γεύμα της ημέρας.
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.
For more on this popular belief see:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1878450X17300045
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20181126-is-breakfast-good-for-your-health
Sunday, March 13th, 2022
Our motto, then, is “back to the Hebrew text”.
It is not enough to browse through various magazine articles, and retail at second or even at third hand the facts or fancies of others. We must get back to the ordinary Hebrew sources and verify the results for ourselves.
If need be, we must copy the devotion of the old Rabbis who did not scruple to burn the midnight oil in the prosecution of their studies. “Hananiah ben Hezekiah,” says the Babylonian Talmud, “is of blessed memory, for but for him Ezekiel would have been declared apocryphal, because his words contradicted the words of the Law: three hundred jars of lamp oil were brought to him, and he sat in his garret and solved the contradictions.” That is his example to Hebrew students to-day. Let them toil as he did at their Old Testament tasks. And they shall yet know something of the beauty of the language and the loftiness of the thought, when they have learned.
Adams, John. Sermons in Accents: Or, Studies in the Hebrew Text. London; New York: T&T Clark, 1906.
Quote of the Week for Sunday, March 13th, 2022
How is the modern preacher to make sure that he is retailing week by week the fully verified results of Biblical exegesis?
Only in one way:
he must get back to the ordinary Hebrew sources and verify the results for himself. If the cause of truth is to be safeguarded from the extravagance of ἀγνωσία, the preacher of the future must sit down and grapple with the minutiæ of the text.
Adams, John. Sermons in Accents: Or, Studies in the Hebrew Text. London; New York: T&T Clark, 1906.
“If you have no morphology, you have no theology.”
Dr. Peter Gentry