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NASB | Colossians 1:16 For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities--all things have been created through Him and for Him. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Colossians 1:16 For by Him all things were created in heaven and on earth, [things] visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities; all things were created and exist through Him [that is, by His activity] and for Him. |
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Bible Note: Dear Jeff, I went looking at your scriptures first off, because I really wanted to know what the Bible says in answer to the oringinal question that got posted. Here is what I found out abuot the erroneous curse of Ham and how it got started! Quote; wikipedia; Early Jewish interpretations The Torah assigns no racial characteristics or rankings to Ham. Moses married a Cushite, one of the reputed descendants of Ham, according to the Book of Numbers, Chapter 12. Despite this, a number of early Jewish writers have interpreted the Biblical narrative of Ham in a racial way. The Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 108b states "Our Rabbis taught: Three copulated in the ark, and they were all punished — the dog, the raven, and Ham. The dog was doomed to be tied, the raven expectorates, his seed into his mate's mouth. and Ham was smitten in his skin." Talmud Bavli, Sanhedrin 108b. The nature of Ham's "smitten" skin is unexplained, but latter commentaries described this as a darkening of skin. A later note to the text states that the "smitten" skin referred to the blackness of descendents, and a later comment by rabbis in the Bereshit Rabbah asserts that Ham himself emerged from the ark black-skinned. 2, 3 The Zohar states that Ham's son Canaan "darkened the faces of mankind". 4 edit. Early and Early Modern Christian interpretations. Many pre-modern Christian sources discuss the curse of Ham in connection with race and slavery: Origen (circa 185 c. 254): “For the Egyptians are prone to a degenerate life and quickly sink to every slavery of the vices. Look at the origin of the race and you will discover that their father Cham, who had laughed at his father’s nakedness, deserved a judgment of this kind, that his son Chanaan should be a servant to his brothers, in which case the condition of bondage would prove the wickedness of his conduct. Not without merit, therefore, does the discolored posterity imitate the ignobility of the race, Non ergo immerito ignobilitatem decolor posteritas imitatur.” Homilies on Genesis 16.1 more to come, Tamara |