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Wednesday, February 24 2010
The English word "finger" originated from an old Anglo-Saxon (i.e. the part of Germany in and from which the English people originated) that meant to grasp, as by the digits of the hand (numbers came to be called "digits" because people used their fingers to count). Interestingly, the English word "fang" originated from the very same root word as "finger" i.e. things could be grasped with the teeth just as with the fingers - something that humans still sometimes do when they have "their hands full."
The Hebrew word of the Holy Scriptures that is usually translated as "finger" is pronounced ets-bawh. It literally means to grasp, but can be used to refer to either fingers or toes - although in the Scriptures it means finger.
The LORD has "fingers" i.e. the Creation was "the work of Thy fingers" (see the Fact Finder question below).
"8:3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; 8:4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? 8:5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. 8:6 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet." (Psalm 8:3-6 KJV)
"This is the finger of God"
As stated above, the "finger" of God is used as an analogy for His Spirit, the Power of Creation and Rule. Surprisingly, it's something that even some of those who do not yet seek to obey Him understand - as in this case when the LORD gave the arrogant Pharaoh His "finger" i.e. "8:19 Then the magicians said unto Pharaoh, This is the finger of God" (see also Plagues Of The Pharaohs: Past and Future).
"8:19 Then the magicians said unto Pharaoh, This is the finger of God: and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said." (Exodus 8:19 KJV)
Humans grasp writing instruments in their fingers. The LORD writes with His Finger alone: "two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God."
"31:18 And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God." (Exodus 31:18 KJV)
Jesus Christ was "the LORD God" spoken of in the verse quotes above (see 'Before Abraham Was, I AM'). It was not something new that He later "with the finger of God cast out devils" (see Devils).
"11:14 And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb. And it came to pass, when the devil was gone out, the dumb spake; and the people wondered.11:15 But some of them said, He casteth out devils through Beelzebub the chief of the devils [see Baal-zebub and Beelzebub].
11:16 And others, tempting him, sought of him a sign from heaven.
11:17 But he, knowing their thoughts, said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and a house divided against a house falleth. 11:18 If Satan also be divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand? because ye say that I cast out devils through Beelzebub. 11:19 And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your sons cast them out? therefore shall they be your judges.
11:20 But if I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you." (Luke 11:14-20 KJV)
Fact Finder: Through Whom did God create all things?
See Christ The Creator
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This Day In History, February 24
786: Pepin the Short of Gaul died. His kingdom was divided between his sons Charles (Charlemagne) and Carloman.
1389: King Albert of Sweden was defeated and captured by the Danes at the Battle of Falkoeping. The outcome left Margaret of Denmark effective ruler of both Sweden and Denmark.
1500: Holy Roman Emperor Charles V was born. It was Charles who officially pronounced Martin Luther an outlaw - the emperor declared Luther a heretic (see Emperors and Popes).
1525: During the first Franco-Habsburg War, the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V captured French King Francis I at the battle of Pavia, in Italy. The battle marked one of the earliest uses of the arquebus (musket).
1530: The first imperial coronation by a pope - Charles V crowned by Clement V.
1582: Pope Gregory XIII issued a Papal Bull proclaiming the Gregorian calendar (named after him), replacing the Julian calendar (named after Julius Caesar). The Gregorian calendar is used throughout the world today.
1714: Sir Edmund Andros died at age 77. As the English administrator in America, he was best known for his part in an unsuccessful attempt to stem growing colonial independence by imposing a kind of supercolony, the "Dominion of New England," on the New World.
1821: Mexico became independent from Spain.
1848: After a revolution in Paris, Louis Philippe of France abdicated in favor of his grandson, the Comte de Paris. The move failed and the Second Republic was proclaimed 2 days later.
1868: Andrew Johnson became the first U.S. president to have impeachment proceedings brought against him.
1887: Paris, France, and Brussels, Belgium, became the first two national capital cities with telephone communications between them.
1920: An small extremist political group in Germany outlined its program to create a Third German Reich. Its spokesman, Adolf Hitler, said that it would change its name to the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazi Party).
1942: 767 Jewish refugees (428 men, 269 women, 70 children) drowned in the sinking of the Struma 5 miles off the coast of Istanbul. After the British refused to allow their acceptance in Palestine, and the Turkish would not allow them into that country, Turkish authorities had the unseaworthy ship towed out to sea, where it soon floundered and sank.
1945: Ahmed Maher Pasha, Egyptian prime minister, was shot dead in Parliament just after reading a declaration of war on Germany and Japan.
1991: After 5 weeks of massive U.S. air bombardment of Iraq and Kuwait, U.S., British and allied ground forces began the ground war in the Kuwait "Gulf War."
