Article September 6, 1941 Issue

Bible Notes

[The Biblical citations given in the Christian Science Quarterly are from the Authorized King James Version. The Bible Notes in this column can be used, if deemed necessary, to elucidate some of the words or passages contained in the Bible Lessons. The Notes in this issue are related to the Lesson-Sermon designated to be read in Christian Science churches on September 14, 1941.]

"Their line is gone out through all the earth" (Ps. 19:4)—"Their line" is a literal rendering of the Hebrew as it has come down to our time, but there is now general agreement among scholars that at an early period a scribe mistakenly omitted the Hebrew letter which corresponds to our "L," thus changing the sense of the word from "voice" or "sound" to "measuring line." "Their sound" or "their voice" seems to provide a natural parallel to "their words" in the second clause of the verse. Moffatt renders: "their message"; while the Septuagint has: "their voice."

"In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun" (Ps. 19:4)—It seems clear that the word "them" refers back to "the heavens," mentioned in verse I, which the Psalmist conceived of as a "tabernacle" (literally, a "dwelling place") for the sun. Smith suggest: "In them he has pitched a tent for the sun."

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