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NASB | Zechariah 13:6 "And one will say to him, 'What are these wounds between your arms?' Then he will say, 'Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.' |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Zechariah 13:6 "And one will say to him, 'What are these wounds between your arms?' Then he will answer, 'Those wounds I received in the house of my friends.' |
Bible Question: What are specific ways that God prepared the world for Jesus's first coming during the 400 silent years? |
Bible Answer: Owl, Makarios has given an excellent answer to your question. Interestingly thre was a similar 400 year period before the appearance of Moses, to whom Christ is repeatedly compared in Matthew's Gospel. Of that earlier period the Catechsm of the Council of Trent says something that might also aply to the later period. "The faithful should next be taught that God suffered the Hebrew Patriarchs to wander for so long a time, and their posterity to be oppressed and harassed by a galling servitude, in order to teach us that none are friends of God except those who are enemies of the world and pilgrims on earth, and that an entire detachment from the world gives us an easier access to the friendship of God. Further He wished that, being brought to His service, we should understand how much happier are they who serve God, than they who serve the world. Of this Scripture itself admonishes us: Yet they shall serve him, that they may know the difference between my service and the service of the kingdom of the earth. (The pastor) should also explain that God delayed the fulfilment of His promise until after the lapse of more than four hundred years, in order that His people might be sustained by faith and hope; for, as we shall show when we come to explain the first Commandment, God wishes His children to depend on Him at all times and to repose all their confidence in His goodness." Emmaus |
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Emmaus |