Sunday

Bible Sprint Day 1

I'm getting this up late (I'm setting the date to the correct one for record keeping purposes) and I'm already behind but that is to be expected on the first week since we have services every night. I fully expect to have the entire text read on time so that I can concentrate on services for Holy Week. Anyway, notes, notes, notes.


Date (Day 1):  2/26/2012
Passage: Genesis 1 – Genesis 31
Prayer before reading:
Illumine our hearts, O Master Who loves mankind, with the pure light of Your divine knowledge. Open the eyes of our mind to the understanding of Your gospel teachings. Implant also in us the fear of Your blessed commandments, that trampling down all carnal desires, we may enter upon a spiritual manner of living, both thinking and doing such things as are well-pleasing unto You. For You are the illumination of our souls and bodies, O Christ our God, and unto You we ascribe glory, together with Your Father, Who is from everlasting, and Your all-holy, good, and life-creating Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages. Amen.
Questions:
  1. How significant is the fact that there are 2 creation accounts?
  2. Gen 2:9 “tree of learning the knowledge of good and evil.” How close is this to the Greek? How close to the Hebrew?
  3. 2:17 “you shall die by death” What kind of death is meant here since they don’t actually die when they eat the fruit?
  4. Gen 10:25 What does Peleg mean?
  5. Why doesn’t pharaoh take back the gifts in Gen 12?
  6. What is the point of Abraham and Isaac lying about their wives? Why were they blessed for it?
Observations:
  1. Genesis 1:7 “…and man became a living soul.” Man is a unit, not a division of body and soul.
  2. 3:8 The way this is worded makes it appear that they have climbed the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
  3. God tells Cain he is responsible for his brother before the murder and Cain asks later if he is his brother’s keeper.
  4. Terah and others in Gen 11 conceive well after they are of normal age but Sara thinks she is too old later. Also, the life spans are diminishing. This plays in to the statement of God in Gen. 6.
  5. Mamre, as in “the oaks of Mamre,” is a person not a place. Cf. Gen 14:13
  6. The Abel/Cain story is the first instance of the younger/older sibling inversion like Jacob/Esau, Joseph/Brothers, Ephraim/Manasseh.
  7. Rachel is a shepherdess. There seems to be a theme of shepherds being righteous.
Prayer after reading:

Lord, now lettest Thou Thy servants depart in peace according to Thy word. For mine eyes have seen Thy salvation which Thou hast prepared before the face of all peoples; a light to enlighten the gentiles and to be the glory of Thy people Israel.

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