Article December 12, 1964 Issue

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[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 20, 1964.]

The isles shall wait for his law (Isa. 42:4)

The Hebrew word here rendered "isles" does not necessarily mean islands, but is often used in a wider, more general sense of "any land or district which bordered on the sea"; indeed the root meaning of the word is even broader, suggesting the thought of habitable land or land where one might live at rest. Sometimes the Hebrews used the word with particular reference to distant lands. Moffatt suggests, "Far lands long for his instruction."

In the sixth month (Luke 1:26)

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