Article January 3, 1976 Issue

Words of Current Interest

Related to the Lesson-Sermon for January 11, 1976, in the CHRISTIAN SCIENCE QUARTERLY Subject: Sacrament

Ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness (Isa. 58:4)

The prophet comments on religious and ethical conditions in Palestine in postexilic times, probably late in the sixth century B.C. Popular indifference was later counteracted by Ezra and Nehemiah, who revitalized the religion of Israel. The New English Bible translates the verse, "Since your fasting leads only to wrangling and strife and dealing vicious blows with the fist, on such a day you are keeping no fast that will carry your cry to heaven."

Make fat thy bones (Isa. 58:11)

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