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NASB | Jeremiah 17:10 "I, the LORD, search the heart, I test the mind, Even to give to each man according to his ways, According to the results of his deeds. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Jeremiah 17:10 "I, the LORD, search and examine the mind, I test the heart, To give to each man according to his ways, According to the results of his deeds. |
Bible Question: A friend of mine has a Nelson Bible and the word kidney is used in reference with the word mind. Can you explain the connection between the two words? It is not written as such in my KJV Life in the Spirit study Bible or in my NLT Life application Study Bible. I have referenced myself silly and cannot find the connection anywhere. |
Bible Answer: Dear tootall2008, Welcome to the forum! The KJV uses the word "reins" which might well be interchangeable with "kidneys" in modern parlance. One of the things that you have to remember is that we have a unique perspective of anatomy because of modern research. Consequently, we think of the mind -- the seat of consciousness -- to reside in our brain. The ancients did not have that perspective. In fact, different peoples attributed other parts of the body as housing the essence of a person. The Egyptians, for example, removed and discarded the brain of their dead, while carefully preserving other organs. I read once that there was an ancient theory that the brain used to cool the blood. Most peoples believed that the heart was the location of the intellect, memory, and emotions. That notion has been preserved in our own language -- although we now know that that organ is a pump to circulate the blood. Jeremiah was, therefore, speaking of the deepest, most hidden, and innermost aspect human nature; however, he was speaking idiomatically. Does that help? In Him, Doc PS For the above reason, if you ever hear someone teaching that the "helmet of salvation" (Isaiah 59:17; 1 Thessalonians 5:8; Ephesians 6:17) has something to do with thinking, you can rightly take them to task for imposing a modern bias in their interpretation. The writers of Scripture often use idioms, but Scripture never means something that it never originally meant. |
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