But What Does It Mean?
By Anne Elliott, October 8, 2015, AnneElliott.com
It is one thing to say we want to neither add to nor subtract from the commands of God, but what if we don’t even understand what we are reading?
Do you remember the Ethiopian eunuch I mentioned from the book of
Acts? He was an important official in charge of the treasury of the queen of Ethiopia, but he was also a "God-fearer." He knew that the Torah required all Israelite men to travel to Jerusalem three times a year to bring offerings to YHVH in His Temple, and on this occasion, he was on his way home from one of those visits to Jerusalem to worship. He was obviously very wealthy, because he had his own copy of a scroll of Isaiah the prophet, something most ordinary people would never be able to
afford.
However, he couldn’t make sense of what he was reading. Read More
