Article February 28, 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 March 8, 1942.]

"Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly" (Ps. 1:1)—The Hebrew preposition which is here rendered "in" often means "by," while alternative renderings are "thanks to" and "because of." Thus Dr. Moffatt renders: "Happy the man who never goes by the advice of the ungodly," and continues, "who never takes the sinners' road." One might also translate: "Happy the man who does not follow the advice of the godless."

"The ungodly ... are like the chaff which the wind driveth away" (Ps. 1:4)—In Bible times it was usual for the threshing floor to be situated in an exposed position, where the wind would swiftly drive the chaff away as the various processes of threshing and winnowing were carried out. Such "threshing floors"—which were not, of course, floors in the modern sense, but simply bare pieces of ground—are still to be seen in use in certain parts of Palestine.

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