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Σάββατο, 1 Απριλίου 2023
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7 For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: 8 But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
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JAMES 3:7-8
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Home Page/Profitable knowledge
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When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him. Matthew 2:3.
This chapter throws considerable light on the conditions prevailing among the inhabitants of Jerusalem at that time. They were descendants of the Jews who had returned from captivity to the land of their fathers under Zerubbabel, Ezra and Nehemiah. The King of the Jews had been born in Bethlehem; yet some time later, not known how long, they still knew nothing of it. We need not be surprised at Herod's ignorance; he was not a Jew but an Idumǽan, or Edomite. Surely, however, the high priests should have known about this great occurrence! Weren't they expecting the birth of their Messiah? The report in Luke 2 tells us that within a few hours some simple, humble people, who feared God, were informed of the birth directly from heaven. A psalm says: «The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him» (Psalm 25:14). These shepherds and other God-fearing persons are examples proving the truth of this verse. The religious leaders did not belong to this group, but to the «proud» whom men call «happy» (cf. Malachi 3:15,16). Like king Herod they were in spiritual darkness.
There was even worse to come! Herod's concern was aggravated because he clearly considered Christ to be a rival with a claim on his throne. He was not alone with his worry, all Jerusalem was troubled, too. So it was not jubilation but dismay that greeted the arrival of the Savior, and this among those who professed to be expecting the Messiah! Today, in our society, there are still many who call themselves Christians; yet any question as to their relationship with Christ disturbs them.
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THE QUAILS
Greece was suffering greatly under the heel of the German invader. The
worst famine the country has ever known in all of its long history was
mercilessly and indiscriminately taking a heavy toll on young and old,
and in cities like Athens, Salonica, Patras et. al., the dead were
picked up from the streets by carts and taken out of town for massive
burials. Our family, consisting of mother and seven children, six girls
and myself, father having died of pneumonia a little earlier, lived up
in northern Greece, in Pogoni of Jannina and a village called lower
Ravenia. The house we stayed at was, of course, old, but large enough,
having a front yard as big as a small farm. I remember during a long and
severe winter, when the snow stayed on the ground for weeks and months,
mother would take a shovel and going out would clear the snow of about a
space of two square meters, then would take a sieve, of those used to
sift sand, gravel and suchlike, and set it one side on the ground the
other somewhat elevated, being supported that way by a stick on which a
string, long enough to reach inside the house through a purposely kept a
little bit open window. The distance was about fifteen meters. Under
the sieve she'd spread crumbs of bread. Then she'd summon us to prayer
and we would hear her say «Father, send your quails», thank you, amen!
Did God hear that prayer? Glory to Him, He sure did! Shortly birds
of various sizes swarmed under the sieve and started swallowing the
crumbs of bread! Then mother would pull the string and the sieve would
capture them. Thus we would have meat to eat for more than one day! This
was done many times and when the birds wouldn't seem to come, mother
would call us to prayer and God would answer the same way. God is still
the same! Remembering some of His many wonderful provisions in the past,
the petition «Lord, increase my faith» is never missing from my
prayers! To God be the glory, great things He has done!
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Corinth - 1
View of ancient Corinth from some point of the Acrocorinthus. One can see ruins of the Temple of Apollo, of Krenes (Springs) and the Agora, as well as of other important structures, that the archaeological spade, brought, at times, to light. One also sees modern buildings, mostly houses, developing not far from the archaeological site. There is no doubt that, from the Christian point of view, Corinth presents a special interest. To this ...
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Kaifas Spa
The picture is certainly beautiful. It shows one of the many spas Greece is endowed with. Here people come, according to doctors' advice, to have mineral therapeutical baths. But that is not the purpose for which we placed this picture here. It is rather to refer on the one hand to Bethesda and Siloam, which by God's merciful intervention seem to have been something similar, and on the other to point to Jesus Christ, Whose precious blood shed ...
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Lydia
Philippi was an important city, in many respects, when the Apostle Paul visited it. He had been waiting for divine direction at Troas of Asia Minor with his companions in the ministry of the gospel, when the Macedonian call came. Philippi was about fifteen kilometers inland from Neapolis, the port town, where the Apostle disembarked. From Luke's narration one should think they spent no time at Neapolis, today's important and thriving Greek ...
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Mars Hill-Athens
View of Mars Hill and partial of Athens from some point of the hill of the Acropolis. As we have also noted elsewhere, Athens was the only city of all that Paul visited, where not only was he not persecuted, but rather treated well and given the opportunity from, in all probability, the most official platform, Areopagus, to address one of the most cultivated audiences of the Greco-Roman world, with the message of Christ and the Resurrection. ...
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The Hellenicity of Ancient Macedonia
ΤΡΊΤΗ, 3 ΙΑΝΟΥΑΡΊΟΥ 2012 THE HELLENICITY OF ANCIENT MACEDONIA The Hellenicity of ancient Macedonia, even in a larger geographical sense, can be proven in many ways, but I believe the book of Daniel alone would be enough. In chapter 8 verse 21 we read: "And the rough goat is the king of Grecia", referring to Alexander the Great. Notice the fact that he is not referred to as the king of Macedonia, which wouldn't make any difference anyway since Macedonia was part of the Hellenic World, but as the king of Hellas (Grecia, Greece!). Alexander himself had been born of Greek parents, and raised up as Greek under the tutorship of the greatest of the Greek philosophers, Aristotle, and spoke and spread all over the vast empire he had formed by his speedy conquests, the Greek language, which, with some slight variations, Greeks speak today, the language known among scholars all over the world as the Koine. And, together with the language he also spread the Greek civilization which is the civilization of the Western World up to this day. It was also the Koine into which the Septuagint was translated from the Hebrew by orders of Ptolemy Philadelphus about 250 BC, and it was in the same language that the New Testament was written, too. This is much stronger a proof that Alexander the Great was Greek than that Everest is the highest mountain in the world! Markos Boussios.
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