Article May 5, 1962 Issue

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 May 13, 1962.]

Blindness (Eph. 4:18) The Greek word thus represented is porosis, which refers literally to the covering with a thick skin or callus (poros) and was often used metaphorically to denote obtuseness, stubbornness, mental dullness, stupidity.

God said, Let us make man (Gen. 1:26) As suggested by the use of the word "us," the term for God ('elohim) found here and so constantly in the Old Testament, is in the plural. Various explanations of this special use of the plural have been offered. Some take it as indicative of completeness or of superiority. Others consider it as being the "plural of majesty" or of kingship; comparable to what is sometimes called "the royal 'we.'"

Mandate (man'dat—first a as in add, second as in ace). An authoritative command: order; injunction.

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