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Related to the Lesson-Sermon for July 22, 1973, in the CHRISTIAN SCIENCE QUARTERLY Subject: Life

Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it (Prov. 16:22)

"Wellspring" is usually rendered "fountain" by modern translators; the Hebrew word could apply to a free-flowing spring. But its primary meaning, "something dug," is a reminder of what a geologist points out, "the difficulty of sinking wells into the rock in these early times, and the great value of the water when it had been reached" (Hastings' five-volume Dictionary of the Bible).

My portion (Eccl. 2:10)

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