Article March 13, 1943 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 passage 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 28, 1943.]

"Where moth and rust doth corrupt"

(Matt. 6:19, 20)—The verb which is translated "corrupt" in these two verses has the literal meaning of "to cause to vanish away," "to consume or destroy." Moffatt suggests: "corrode"; while Weymouth (Fifth Edition) prefers to render in verse 19: "where the moth and wear-and-tear destroy."

"Being evil" (Matt. 7:11)—The Greek term "poneros" has the literal meaning of "full of labor" (ponos), but came to be used to mean "servile" and eventually "bad" or "evil." Goodspeed translates: "bad as you are," evidently taking "poneros" (evil) as contrasted with the "good gifts," mentioned in the same verse; though Weymouth prefers: "imperfect as you are."

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