The Lord Christ absolutely did not mean the sword in its literal sense. As an evidence of that, hours after He said this statement, and during His arrest “Simon Peter, having a sword, drew it and struck the high priest servant and cut off his ear… then Jesus said to Peter: put your sword …
We should know first the meaning of the word “good” and the word “evil” in the biblical terminology for they have more than one meaning. The word “evil” could mean sin which is not the case in the verse “creator of evil” in (Is. 45:7). “Evil” meaning sin doesn’t agree with the goodness of the …
The sons of God are the descendants of Seth and the daughters of men are the descendants of Cain. After the slaying of Abel the righteous, Adam begot another son and named him Seth, “for God has appointed another seed for me instead of Abel” (Gen. 4:25) “And as for Seth, to him also a …
The story of making man is one story for the same man. The account is mentioned as a whole in the first chapter but in detail in the second chapter. In the first chapter, the making of man was part of all the process of creation. Then the details came in the second chapter about …
In our celebration of the Apostles’ Fast and the Apostles’ Feast, we find that our fathers the apostles were of so many types. Each of the apostles was of a type: Peter was different that Thomas and both were different from John the beloved. And in reality these types were not only different among the …
