Article June 5, 1965 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 June 13, 1965.]

Therefore will the Lord wait, that he may be gracious unto you,... blessed are all they that wait for him (Isa. 30:18) The Hebrew word twice translated "wait" also means "hope, expect, long for." Thus Moffatt suggests, "So the Eternal longs to favour you...happy are all who long for him!"

The Lord is nigh...to all that call upon him in truth (Ps. 145:18) Besides its meaning "truth," the Hebrew word thus translated implies by its derivation "reliability, firmness, stability, sureness." Smith suggests the translation, "The Lord is near...to all who call upon him sincerely"; while Coverdale, writing in the early sixteenth century, had, "The Lorde is nye unto...all soch as call upon him faithfully."

Dictum (dik'tum—i as in is,u as in circus). Saying, statement. An authoritative pronouncement often formal and definitive; a statement in summation uttered with the intent or hope of acceptance as definitive; a formal statement of a principle or proposition; an opinionative statement uttered as though authoritatively and objectively; an opinion expressed by a judge on a point not necessarily arising or involved in a case in question or necessary for determining the rights of the parties involved.

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