Who is this “great harlot”? Who is Babylon the Great? Who or what are the seven kings and the eighth king of Revelation? How are we to understand Revelation 17:1-18? What does all of this mean for Christians?
Day: January 10, 2020
How Are We to Understand the New Testament Use of the Old Testament?
There are 320 Greek New Testament direct quotations passages from the Hebrew Scriptures. According to a listing published by Westcott and Hort, the combined total of quotations and references is some 890. (The New Testament in the Original Greek, Graz, 1974, Vol. I, pp. 581-595)
DAILY DEVOTIONAL FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 2020
Who is wise and understanding among you? (James 3:13a)
This is spoken concerning the work of public teaching; and the meaning of the apostle is, that if there were such persons among them, they should be selected for that office. The characteristics here stated as necessary qualifications are wisdom and knowledge. Those, it would seem, on which reliance had been placed, were chiefly those who were connected with ready oratory, or the mere faculty of speaking. The apostle had stated the dangers which would follow if reliance were placed on that alone, and he now says that something more is necessary, that the primary qualifications for the office are wisdom and knowledge. No mere power of speaking, however eloquent it might be, was a sufficient qualification. The primary things to be sought about that office were wisdom and knowledge, and they who were endowed with these things should be selected for public instructors.
