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Saturday, March 6 2010
The English word "table" originated from a Latin word, tabula, which literally meant to extend i.e. most simply, a table extended the eating or working surface of one's lap. A "tablet" was a small table. Later usage widened to include everything from large dining or meeting tables to small tablets for writing (some today still call a pad of paper a "writing tablet"). "Tablet" came to be used for even smaller flat-surface items, from tablets of soap (now more commonly known as "bars of soap") to tablets of various medicines.
The original Hebrew word of the Holy Scriptures that is most-often translated as "table" is pronounced shool-khawm. It literally means a table - and is used as such in the Scriptures e.g.
"37:16 And he made the vessels which were upon the table, his dishes, and his spoons, and his bowls, and his covers to cover withal, of pure gold" (Exodus 37:16 KJV)
On the other hand, the original Hebrew word of the Holy Scriptures that is most-often translated as "tables" is pronounced loo-awkh. It means to shine, as in a highly-polished flat surface. It is used to refer to the "tables of stone" upon which were written The Ten Commandments (see How to be a true Christian Lesson 1, Lesson 2, Lesson 3, Lesson 4, Lesson 5, Lesson 6, Lesson 7, Lesson 8, Lesson 9 and Lesson 10) i.e.
"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)
"With the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone"
As shown above, The Ten Commandments were written on tables of stone. But the words on them were to be "taken to heart," obeyed, by writing them not merely on hearts of flesh, but the very spirit, in the very Spirit, in which they were given - "with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshly tables of the heart."
"3:2 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:3:3 Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshly tables of the heart." (2 Corinthians 3:2-3 KJV)
The people who were given the tables of stone did not live (but will again later when they wake up after they wake up - "11:8 According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear; unto this day" Romans 11:8 KJV; see also Resurrections) because they did not take the words to "heart."
"3:7 But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away: 3:8 How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?3:9 For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. 3:10 For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth. 3:11 For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.
3:12 Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech: 3:13 And not as Moses, which put a veil over his face [see The Veil of Moses], that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished: 3:14 But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same veil untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which veil is done away in Christ. 3:15 But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the veil is upon their heart.
3:16 Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away. 3:17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 3:18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord." (2 Corinthians 3:7-18 KJV)
Fact Finder: What must happen before The Ten Commandments, the Laws of Life, can be "taken to heart"?
See The Cure For The Carnal Mind
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This Day In History, March 6
1521: Ferdinand Magellan discovered Guam.
1617: Louis Hebert signed an agreement that entitled him to become the first farmer in New France (North America).
1629: In Germany, the Edict of Restitution ordered that all church property seized since 1552 be returned to the Roman Catholic Church.
1820: The Missouri Compromise was enacted by the U.S. Congress and signed by President James Monroe. It provided for the admission of Missouri into the Union as a "slave state," but prohibited slavery in the rest of the northern Louisiana Purchase territory.
1834: The city of Toronto, Ontario was incorporated, with William Lyon Mackenzie as its first mayor.
1836: The 13-day siege of the Alamo ended when 3,000 Mexican troops under Santa Anna captured the mission fort defended by 180 Texans including Jim Bowie and Davey Crocket.
1900: Gottfried Daimler, engineer who built the first motorcycle, died.
1933: All U.S. banks were closed by a proclamation from president Franklin Roosevelt. The closings were considered necessary after a series of major bank failures and runs on banks (in the 8 days preceding March 4, $1,500,000,000 had been withdrawn by depositors) and the closing of banks by a number of states beginning with Michigan in mid-February. Following passage by Congress of the Emergency Banking Act 3 days later, sound banks were permitted to reopen.
1944: 658 U.S. bombers began a daylight attack on Berlin from bases in Britain and dropped 2,000 tons of bombs.
1964: King Constantine II of Greece succeeded to the throne after the death of his father, Paul I.
1987: A Townsend Thoreson ferry, Herald of Free Enterprise, capsized on its way out of Zeebrugge harbor in Belgium drowning 193 people.
