Article April 10, 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 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 April 25, 1943.]

"Keep in memory" (I Cor. 15:2)—The Greek term which is thus translated has the more literal sense of "hold fast, keep secure, keep firm possession of;" hence Weymouth (Fifth Edition) suggests: "If you hold to the substance of my preaching;" and Moffatt: "I would have you know ... the gospel by which you are saved—provided you adhere to my statement of it."

"He was seen of Cephas" (I Cor. 15:5)—It may be observed that Cephas is simply the Aramaic equivalent of the Greek name "Petros" (Peter)—both meaning literally "stone" or "rock"; while the apostle's other names, "Simon" (Luke 24:34) and "Simeon" (Acts 15:14), both mean "hearing."

"After that, he was seen of James" (I Cor. 15:7)—It is generally conceded that this James was not one of the two men of that name numbered among the original "twelve apostle" (James the son of Alphaeus and James the son of Zebedee), but was the one who is described by Paul in another passage as "James the Lord's brother" (Gal. 1:19). Commenting on I Corinthians 15:7, Hastings observes that the latter James "was won to faith by a special manifestation of the risen Lord."

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