... Sunday school died in that blast. How would we portray the grief of the women who watch the soldiers murder their children? Steven Spielberg portrays the grief of a woman who has lost her sons in World War II. In the movie, Saving Private Ryan, Spielberg ... quotes Jeremiah, but those words tell us all we need to know. "A voice was heard in Ramah, wailing and loud lamentation, Rachel weeping for her children; she refused to be consoled, because they are no more." Herod joins a long line of brutal political ...
47:1–12 With the vision of the river of life in verses 1–12, we return to Ezekiel’s original vision report. Although the insertion of material belonging to the Law of the Temple interrupted the original continuity between 44:1–2 and 47:1, the technique of resumptive repetition still signals the connection. The same Hebrew verb, shub (“return”) occurs in 44:1 (Heb. wayyasheb ʾoti, NIV “Then the man brought me back”) and 47:1 (Heb. wayeshibeni, NIV The man brought me back). The connection is also apparent ...