Article May 9, 1964 Issue

WORDS OF CURRENT INTEREST

[The words in this issue are related to the Lesson-Sermon in Christian Science Quarterly designated to be read in Christian Science churches on May 17, 1964.]

Thou art not yet fifty years old (John 8:57)

Plummer holds that "'fifty years' is a round number, the Jewish traditional age of full manhood (Num. 4:3, 39;8:24, 25). There is no reason to suppose that Jesus was nearly fifty, or looked nearly fifty. In comparing his age with the 2000 years since Abraham the Jews would not care to be precise so long as they were within the mark."

Delusions

(de-lu'zhunz—e as in event, first u as in cube or oo as in food, second as in circus). The verb "delude," from which delusion is derived, comes from the Latin deludere, meaning to play false, make sport of, mock. Hence delusion is the act of deluding or state of being deluded; often, a misleading of the mind; an abnormal mental state characterized by occurrence of delusions; also it means false belief or a persistent error of perception occasioned by mental derangement.

Idolater

(i-dol'a-ter—i as in ice, o as in odd, a as in sofa, e as in maker). A worshiper of idols; one that pays divine honors to an image, statue, or natural object as a representative of deity; a person that devotes intense or excessive and often blind affection, adoration, or admiration to an object not normally a subject of worship.

ELIJAH THE TISHBITE (I Kings 17:1)

(e-li'ja—e as in event, i as in ice, a as in sofa; tish'bit—first i as in is, second as in ice). Little is known about Elijah's background; but many feel he was called "the Tishbite" because he came originally from Tishbeh, or, possibly, Thesbon, within the boundaries of Gilead, to the east of the Jordan River.

WHAT HAVE I TO DO WITH THEE? (I Kings 17:18)

The idiomatic Hebrew pharase so rendered in the King James Version is highly condensed, and thus various renderings are possible. Moffatt suggests, "What have you to do with my life?" Taken quite literally, the Hebrew would read, "What [is there] for me and for you?"

Premise

(prem'is—e as in end, i as in is). A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; a basis of argument; a proposition in logic stated or assumed as leading to a conclusion; either of the first two propositions of a syllogism from which the conclusion is drawn; something assumed or taken for granted; a presupposition.

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