Lesson 3
Yesterday we did the McDonalds thing. The kids had fun. I still don't understand how kids can eat one minute and be starving in about an hour. They played for a couple hours there while we talked and chased Anna around a few times. We got home and by 2:30 they were already asking me for a snack and then again at 4:30. So I just made sandwiches for their dinner and then we went to church.
Pastor had a good sermon on framing your world with the spoken word and how it relates to the Holy Spirit. Still preaching on Holy Spirit - That's a good thing. Praise and Worship was good. I could even hear Edgey shouting out there. What was really neat, was that the little kids (Elizabeth and Jesse's class) came marching in at the end of service to a Christian soldier song and they had made the armor of God. It was really cute. I listened to them talk about killing "hideous devils" on the way home in the back of the van. They are still playing with the armor this morning. They were also talking about blood and guts on their shields. I was trying to explain it is not blood and guts we are fighting but principalities and powers and the shields were to keep off fiery darts. They want to go outside and make a fort this morning. It's a bit too cold and they still have to do their school work.
Anyway, we got home and sent the kids to bed, of course, after they had another snack. Then we sat down to have dinner by ourselves. That was nice. I don't really like eating that late but we talked for a while.
Edgey has to go do an estimate tonight for L&B Remodeling then we are going to fellowship with them. : ) I can't wait. Ethan wants to go to karate, so I am not sure what we are going to do with him yet.
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Lesson 3
How was the Word of God preserved?
There were 8 rules that the Jews had to follow to preserve scripture:
1 - The parchment must be made from the skin of clean animals; must be prepared by a Jew only, and the skins must be fastened together with strings taken from clean animals.
2-Each column must have no less than 48 nor more than 60 lines. The entire copy must be first lined.
3-The ink must be of no other color than black, and it must be prepared according to a special recipe.
4-No word nor letter could be written from memory; the scribe must have an authentic copy before him, and he must read and pronounce aloud each word before writing it.
5-He must reverently wipe his pen each time before writing the word for "God" (Elohim) and he must wash his whole body before writing the name "Jehovah" (translated Lord) otherwise the holy name would be contaminated.
6-Strict rules were given concerning forms of the letters, spaces between letters, words, and sections, the use of the pen, the color of the parchment, etc...
7-The revision of a roll must be made withing 30 days after the work was finished; otherwise it was worthless. Once mistake on a sheet condemned the sheet; if three mistakes were found on any page, the entire manuscript was condemned.
8-Every word and every letter was counted and if a letter were omitted, an extra letter inserted, or if one letter touched another, the manuscript was condemned and destroyed at once. Another person would check to see what the middle letter was on the copy and the original. They must match.
So just per say a scribe is working on Gen chapter 2:7 It says (of course this is Hebrew language) And (pronounce out loud and write it) the (pronounce out loud and write) Lord (go take a bath - come back and pronounce and write) God (wipe off pen, pronounce and write) formed (pronounce aloud and write) man (pronounce aloud and write) .... can you imagine? The next sentence Gen 2:8 again says Lord God - another bath, next vs 2:9 says again Lord God - another bath...... and so on and so on.
And I think my hands are dry when I am at work washing between each patient. This is just 3 verses.
This would be very meticulous work and I wonder how long it would take just to get one page done. Can you imagine if the count was off after you spent all that time? I would feel like a total failure. What if you got from Genesis all the way through Malachi and there were 3 mistakes?
UGH!
Pastor had a good sermon on framing your world with the spoken word and how it relates to the Holy Spirit. Still preaching on Holy Spirit - That's a good thing. Praise and Worship was good. I could even hear Edgey shouting out there. What was really neat, was that the little kids (Elizabeth and Jesse's class) came marching in at the end of service to a Christian soldier song and they had made the armor of God. It was really cute. I listened to them talk about killing "hideous devils" on the way home in the back of the van. They are still playing with the armor this morning. They were also talking about blood and guts on their shields. I was trying to explain it is not blood and guts we are fighting but principalities and powers and the shields were to keep off fiery darts. They want to go outside and make a fort this morning. It's a bit too cold and they still have to do their school work.
Anyway, we got home and sent the kids to bed, of course, after they had another snack. Then we sat down to have dinner by ourselves. That was nice. I don't really like eating that late but we talked for a while.
Edgey has to go do an estimate tonight for L&B Remodeling then we are going to fellowship with them. : ) I can't wait. Ethan wants to go to karate, so I am not sure what we are going to do with him yet.
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Lesson 3
How was the Word of God preserved?
There were 8 rules that the Jews had to follow to preserve scripture:
1 - The parchment must be made from the skin of clean animals; must be prepared by a Jew only, and the skins must be fastened together with strings taken from clean animals.
2-Each column must have no less than 48 nor more than 60 lines. The entire copy must be first lined.
3-The ink must be of no other color than black, and it must be prepared according to a special recipe.
4-No word nor letter could be written from memory; the scribe must have an authentic copy before him, and he must read and pronounce aloud each word before writing it.
5-He must reverently wipe his pen each time before writing the word for "God" (Elohim) and he must wash his whole body before writing the name "Jehovah" (translated Lord) otherwise the holy name would be contaminated.
6-Strict rules were given concerning forms of the letters, spaces between letters, words, and sections, the use of the pen, the color of the parchment, etc...
7-The revision of a roll must be made withing 30 days after the work was finished; otherwise it was worthless. Once mistake on a sheet condemned the sheet; if three mistakes were found on any page, the entire manuscript was condemned.
8-Every word and every letter was counted and if a letter were omitted, an extra letter inserted, or if one letter touched another, the manuscript was condemned and destroyed at once. Another person would check to see what the middle letter was on the copy and the original. They must match.
So just per say a scribe is working on Gen chapter 2:7 It says (of course this is Hebrew language) And (pronounce out loud and write it) the (pronounce out loud and write) Lord (go take a bath - come back and pronounce and write) God (wipe off pen, pronounce and write) formed (pronounce aloud and write) man (pronounce aloud and write) .... can you imagine? The next sentence Gen 2:8 again says Lord God - another bath, next vs 2:9 says again Lord God - another bath...... and so on and so on.
And I think my hands are dry when I am at work washing between each patient. This is just 3 verses.
This would be very meticulous work and I wonder how long it would take just to get one page done. Can you imagine if the count was off after you spent all that time? I would feel like a total failure. What if you got from Genesis all the way through Malachi and there were 3 mistakes?
UGH!
posted by Mrs Edgey at 3/16/2006 07:59:00 AM
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