Article November 8, 1975 Issue

Words of Current Interest

Related to the Lesson-Sermons for November 16 and 27, 1975, in the CHRISTIAN SCIENCE QUARTERLY Subject: Mortals and Immortals; Thanksgiving

Love not the world (I John 2:15)

The Greek noun kosmos (here translated "world") includes the following connotations, according to Arndt and Gingrich's Lexicon: the world, as the sum total of what is here and now; earth as contrasted with heaven; the "scene of earthly joys, possessions, cares, sufferings"; that which opposes God.

Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground (Gen. 4:2)

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