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Bible Notes
"By mercy and truth iniquity is purged" (Prov. 16:6)—The Hebrew word "chesed" can be rendered "mercy," as here and inPsalms 89:14, but the connotation of the term is much broader than is suggested by that single translation. In Psalms 89:33, and many other passages, the word "chesed" is translated "lovingkindness," while it also means "love, kindness, benevolence, good-will, favor, benefit, grace, piety, beauty" (see Feyera-bend: Hebrew Lexicon). It may be added that the term translated "iniquity" comes from a root which suggests "erring" or "wandering" from the true path (cf. Brown, Driver, Briggs: Hebrew Lexicon, p.730), and has sometimes been translated "perversity."
"Who is a strong Lord like unto thee? or to thy faithfulness round about thee?" (Ps. 89:8)—In the original the phrase rendered "a strong Lord" follows "who is like unto thee," and is similar in appearance to a word meaning "thy lovingkindness" ("chesed"—cf. Prov. 16:6); and Moffatt concludes that the latter word formed the original reading—hence his translation: "Who can compare with thee, in all thy love and faithfulness?"

April 27, 1935 issue
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Government through Light
DAISETTE D. S. MC KENZIE
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"The universal solvent"
JOHN L. MOTHERSHEAD
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Prayerful Solitude
HON. MRS. FRANCES PORTER
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Loyalty to Our Associations
EDNA E. PALEN
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God's Word Available
ADELA S. HAWLEY
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Trials as Proof of Progress
H. EARLE JOHNSON
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On Going Modern
ARTHUR J. TODD
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William G. Biederman, Committee on Publication for the District of Columbia,
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Gen. A. Kündinger, former Committee on Publication for Germany,
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William K. Primrose,
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A Moment's Prayer
LAURA GERAHTY
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It is a significant and interesting fact to observe, in connection...
Extracts from an address given by Bernard C. Duncan, before the Christian Science Organization at the George Washington University,
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Overcoming Superstition
Duncan Sinclair
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Mastering Mesmerism
W. Stuart Booth
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Christian Science means everything to me
Daisy R. Strangeways
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Some years ago I was in the company of a number of...
Lester Parker
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When Christian Science came into my life I was fettered...
Carla von Ahlefeld
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Seventeen years ago I began to read the Christian Science...
Joseph M. Minnie
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It is with profound gratitude that I testify to the guiding...
Marguerite D. Page
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Even when I was a child spiritual things interested me...
Alfred Leuenberger with contributions from Elisa Leuenberger
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Some years ago the members of my family took up the...
Ada F. Cusack
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In 1913, when I was about to undergo an operation, I...
Adeline Barrus Johnson
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Reflection
DOROTHY O. HONE
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from L. B. Ashby, Arthur W. McDavitt, A Correspondent, T. F. Opie