Despite Israel’s Strategic Gains, Iran Is Coming Out Ahead
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There was balm in Gilead, but what was it exactly?
If God’s threat to “hide His face” represents one kind of difficult-to-interpret biblical phrase, Jeremiah 8:22, where the prophet asks rhetorically, “Is there no balm in Gilead,” represents the opposite kind, where the problem isn’t theological but philological and even biological. The sense of the verse is evident, but the exact meaning of tsori (usually rendered “balm”), a word used elsewhere in Scripture, is not. A new discovery might shed some light on the subject, as Sue Surkes explains:
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There was balm in Gilead, but what was it exactly?
If God’s threat to “hide His face” represents one kind of difficult-to-interpret biblical phrase, Jeremiah 8:22, where the prophet asks rhetorically, “Is there no balm in Gilead,” represents the opposite kind, where the problem isn’t theological but philological and even biological. The sense of the verse is evident, but the exact meaning of tsori (usually rendered “balm”), a word used elsewhere in Scripture, is not. A new discovery might shed some light on the subject, as Sue Surkes explains:
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