Article January 3, 1942 Issue

Bible Notes

[The Biblical citations given in the Christian Science Quarterly are from the Authorized King James Version. The Bible Notes in these columns 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 January 11, 1942.]

"Neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth" (I Cor. 5:8) —An alternative rendering for the Greek word which is here translated "malice" is "vicious disposition"; while "sincerity" represents a term which means more literally "purity." Goodspeed renders: "nor with the yeast of vice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of purity and truth;" though Weymouth (Fifth Edition) prefers: "nor with the leaven of villainy and mischief, but with bread free from leaven— the bread of sincerity and of truth."

"Observe the month of Abib,....for in the month of Abib the Lord thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night" (Deut. 16:1)—The month in which the Exodus from Egypt occurred was thereafter known as the first month of the Hebrew ecclesiastical year, its original name, Abib, suggesting by its derivation that it was the month of the "green ears of corn." Abib corresponded to part of March and part of April, according to our calendar. At the time of the Babylonian exile, its name was changed to the more familiar "Nisan."

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