Article November 15, 1969 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 November 23, and on Thanksgiving Day, November 27, 1969.

Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay (Isa. 29:16)

The single Hebrew word haphkekem, translated, "your turning of things upside down," comes from a root which sometimes means "overturn," suggesting the rendering in our King James Version. But Skinner observes that the form haphkekem can also mean, "O your perversity!" J. M. P. Smith suggests, "O the perversity of you!" continuing, "Is the potter of no more account than the clay?"

God . . . dwelleth not in temples made with hands (Acts 17:24)

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