WORDS OF CURRENT INTEREST

[The words in this issue are related to the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly designated to be read in Christian Science churches on December 3, 1961.]

Kedar (Isa. 42:11)

(ke'der—first e as in eve, second as in maker). A tribe of tent dwellers of northern Arabia; later a tribal confederacy, destroyed by the Assyrians under Ashurbanipal. Although the people of Kedar were primarily nomadic, a number of them seem to have lived in more or less permanent settlements—the "villages" mentioned in this verse.

The inhabitants of the rock (Isa. 42:11)

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November 25, 1961
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