Article August 22, 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 September 6, 1942.]

"The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord" (Ps.37:23)—It may be observed that the word "good" is not directly represented in the original, though it may well be implied. Then, too, the term rendered "ordered" means more literally "established"; while some contend that the word "steps" is used figuratively of a man's "course of life." Moffatt suggests: "When a man's life pleases the Eternal, he gives him a sure footing;" and the American Standard Version: "A man's goings are established of Jehovah."

"The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the Lord" (Prov. 16:1)—It has been pointed out that a more literal rendering would be: "To man belong the plans of the heart, but the answer ... is from the Lord;" while Moffatt sets down the following interesting rendering: "A man may think what he will say, but at the moment the word comes to him from the Eternal."

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