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16. "Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established." — Proverbs 16:3. 17. "But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night.
The proverb appears frequently in the literary works of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Scottish authors. In John Moore's Zeluco (1789), a character assures another in a letter that there is little danger in him forgetting his old friends "and far less my blood relations; for surely blood is thicker than water."
Midrash Tanhuma [5] also details how Lailah is in charge of conception (לַמַּלְאָךְ הַמְּמֻנָּה עַל הַהֵרָיוֹן). As in Niddah 16b, God decrees everything about the unborn child's fate except whether it will be righteous or wicked, since this is a choice the individual has to make for themself.
Jerome comments on the Holy Spirit and fire aspect of this passage saying, "Either the Holy Ghost Himself is a fire, as we learn from the Acts, when there sat as it were fire on the tongues of the believers; and thus the word of the Lord was fulfilled who said, I am come to send fire on the earth, I will that it burn. (Luke 12:49.)
There are two lessons generally read into this verse. The first is that beauty and the physical are fleeting: what is splendid one day can be thrown into the fire the next. This perhaps links with Matthew 6:20, where Jesus contrasts the impermanence of physical things with the eternal nature of the spiritual.
2 comments Toggle The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb subsection. 2.1 Weblinks and other removed references. 2.2 Edits. 3 The Meaning. 3 ...
ᏗᎵᏍᏙᏗ "dilsdohdi" [1] the "water spider" is said to have first brought fire to the inhabitants of the earth in the basket on her back. [2]Cherokee spiritual beliefs are held in common among the Cherokee people – Native American peoples who are Indigenous to the Southeastern Woodlands, and today live primarily in communities in North Carolina (the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians ...
The origin of this interpretation is unclear. Some translations of the Bible mention "plague" (e.g. the New International Version) [25] or "pestilence" (e.g. the Revised Standard Version) [26] in connection with the riders in the passage following the introduction of the fourth rider; cf. "They were given power over a fourth of the Earth to ...