Biblical Reading and Reflections: September 10th (Nahum 1 & Matthew 9:18-34)
Alastair's Adversaria
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Naham's Proclamation of the Coming Downfall of the Assyrians
We don't know the king, or the kings during whose reign naham prophesied. Manassa ammon and josiah were the kings during t relevant period. Timer draws our attention to the presence of an acrostic where the first and last letters of the lines from the second half of verse one to half way through verse three spell out the hebrew for i with the first letters and away with the last letters. There is a further acrostic pattern that timor identifies in verses two to eight, with a partial, yet broken acrostic following the first half of the hebrew alphabet at the start of successive lines. The final resolution has yet to arrive.
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