Their eyes swell out with fatness;their hearts overflow with follies. Psalm 73:7 (NRSV) Richard Liantonio, University of Manchester Gorged-out eyes, fat bulging between eye and socket, a horrifying gaze, an evil scheme. The picture is stark and perhaps shocking, but a reasonable first impression from the line their eyes swell out with fatness. This expression […]
Psalms
Take My Unicorns But Leave the Hyssop
by Steven Bishop, PhD, Seminary of the Southwest, Austin, TX Students gaze at me in wide wonder when I tell them that unicorns are in the Bible, at least in certain translations of the Bible. To add to their wonder, I tell them that the 1928 Book of Common Prayer has unicorns in three Psalms […]