The Blog of Brad Belschner
The Law of Moses is often pretty sparse in its wording, and it’s worth emphasizing that certain laws require a reasoned application of gender differences. Deuteronomy 25 has two different examples of an opposite nature. The first example is verses 1-3, which give the famous limitation on beatings: “Forty blows he may give him and …
I was asked recently whether I affirm WCF section 1.8, given the principles of equitable eclecticism I hold. For reference, here is the statement in question: The Old Testament in Hebrew (which was the native language of the people of God of old), and the New Testament in Greek (which, at the time of the …
James Snapp Jr. introduced me to the term “equitable eclecticism”, and I liked the phrase so much I made it the subtitle for my blog. When I use the phrase I mean it in a looser way that applies to everything generically, but in the most technical sense it refers to a method of biblical …
Did Israelites hamstring horses, and if so why? My brother-in-law is a horse farrier, and we were discussing this question recently. Hamstringing refers to the severing of the hamstring tendon. Contrary to what you may have read in some commentaries, hamstringing a horse does NOT render a horse unfit for war but still useful for …