This essay was first published in the CGG Weekly as “A Pattern of Persecution” on February 1, 2019. “But, as he who was born according to the flesh then persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, even so it is now.” —Galatians 4:29 Wise Solomon comments in Ecclesiastes …
“So Abraham said to the oldest servant of his house, who ruled over all that he had, ‘Please, put your hand under my thigh, . . .’” —Genesis 24:2 In America and other places in the Western world, oath-takers raise their right hands and pledge to perform certain actions, sometimes …
This first appeared on March 31, 2012. And she put the skins of the kids of the goats on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck. —Genesis 27:16 This verse appears within the story of Jacob’s tricking of the elderly, blind Isaac into giving him the patriarchal …
