An Idea Borrowed

Years ago on a radio program someone shared that they read a chapter in Proverbs every day. Since there are 31 chapters and the longest month has 31 days it allows you to read through Proverbs on a regular basis. I use it as the launch pad for my personal worship time and branch out from there. On this blog I will try to share some of the insights I have in the Word. I will try to organize them in the archive by reference.

Monday, January 27, 2025

Synonyms

(Psa 119:2 KJV)  Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.

(Proverbs 27 also read)

As I dwell upon the place and the meaning of the law of God, I come across numerous synonyms.  The generic would be “Law”.  Then there are the words that seem to go along with it: commandment, statute, ordinance, and the one that we see here “testimonies.  Are they the same?  Are they slightly different?  Is there overlap?

I still really don’t know.

When I looked at the resources I have on this word “testimonies”, I found that the first reference said that it referred to the “10 words”, which I assume means the 10 Commandments.  It talks about putting the testimony into the ark, and then refers to the ark as the ark of testimony.

So?  Regardless of what turns up eventually, we can safely say that the 10 Commandments are the basis of Law.  Even if you take what Jesus had to say about the greatest of the commandments, you find that the first part is summarized at the beginning of the Decalogue, and the second part is summarized in the second part.  The Bible interprets the Bible. 

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