The Doppelganger

I get excited when I find one passage of scripture that’s virtually identical to another written by different authors at different times. In the case of Psalm 1, Jeremiah wrote exactly the same words to warn the nation of Israel. Was he copying the psalmist? I don’t know. But it makes me think that this piece of wisdom is very important.

(6 mins. reading time)

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Fruit Anyone?

With rich agricultural metaphors, the psalmist shows where the path of godliness and the path of the wicked lead – the path of godliness to a vibrant fruit tree, and the path of the wicked to empty, dead grain shells. The contrast could not be starker. Life is at the heart of the comparison.

(8 mins. reading time)

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