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Hebrews 9:1-10

Understanding Series

Donald A. Hagner

... the destruction of the temple continued to use the present tense in describing the temple ritual (e.g., Clement of Rome, Justin Martyr, the rabbinic literature). 9:8 In two other places the Holy Spirit is explicitly referred to as the speaker in ... it is in 9:2, but simply “the Holy Place” (hagia). The context, with its reference to the first tabernacle, suggests that the innermost chamber, the Holy of Holies, is meant. In several references to follow (vv. 12, 24, and 25; 10:19; 13:11), the single word is ...

2. The Last Day of the Feast

John 7:45--8:11, John 8:12-30

Understanding Series

J. Ramsey Michaels

... ek tēs koilias autou), and there is no biblical passage that combines this phrase with the imagery of streams of water. Justin Martyr in the second century (Dialogue with Trypho 135.3) identified Christians as “the true Israelite race” because they were “quarried from ... were put: lit., “in the treasury.” The reference is not to the actual chambers used to store the temple treasure but probably to the place of access to these chambers, i.e., the Court of the Women (so called to distinguish it from ...

3. “I Am from Him and He Sent Me”

John 7:25-44

Understanding Series

J. Ramsey Michaels

4. What Would Jesus Say About War?

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... picked up the Pacifist Tradition. In essence, pacifists hold an opposition to all killing, all military service, and all warfare. Justin Martyr in the second century A.D. announced that Jesus Christ was the fulfillment of Isaiah’s promise of peace ... in the presence of the Nazis. I want to do it in the spirit of Corrie ten Boom who kept praying on her way to the gas chambers. I don’t want to be held up in some place alone. I want to be among people, healing hurts, sharing grief, holding the hands of others ...

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