The Hungry Disciple

  A Canaanite woman approached Jesus as He walked along the road. She implored Him as The Merciful Son of David to heal her daughter.  This woman was a gentile, an enemy of God’s people. She had no covenant. She had no right to ask anything of Jesus, but she had heard something about Jesus that made her approach Him. Jesus did not say a word back to her. So normal was the distain of the Jewish people for her people that the disciples advised Jesus to send her away. She was a bother to them; no more than a fly that needed to be swatted away.  Jesus, our kind and merciful Savior, then told this woman that He wasn’t sent for her but to the Israelites. He tells her He is not available to her, and still her response is to fall at his feet and beg Him to help her.  He then says, I am able to help you, but I won’t because it’s not right to take the children’s food and give it to dogs. She knew who she was. She knew she wasn’t a Jew. She knew she wa...

Job 36:32 With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it [not to shine] by [the cloud] that cometh betwixt This rather innocent verse in Job, a description of God, is a wonderful example of cloudy translation-pun intended.  It is from the KJV and it’s important to know that when a word or group of words is in brackets in the KJV they have been added by the translators to make the verse make sense.  Many times the verse is better understood without the additions. Even more troubling are mistranslations of words, and that is what I want to look at here. This verse is composed of 5 Hebrew words. The KJV uses 18 English words to translate it.  The actual Hebrew words used are listed below with their meanings in the order we are to read them. כף   kaph 1)   palm, hand, sole, palm of the hand, hollow or flat of the hand      (rooted in the word bow or bend)    a...