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A companion series to the acclaimed Word Biblical Commentary. Finding the great themes of the books of the Bible is essential to the study of God’s Word and to the preaching and teaching of its truths. These themes and ideas are often like precious gems: they lie beneath the surface and can only be discovered with some difficulty. While commentaries are useful for helping readers understand the...

of the assemblies of Jacob.” This identification of Law with Wisdom led to the (to us!) extraordinary notion that the Law was God’s means of creation. The expression “in the beginning” in Hebrew is a single word, and it can as well be rendered, “by the beginning.” One rabbinic commentator, favoring the latter meaning, drew the conclusion: “The beginning is nothing other than the Torah,” citing as evidence Proverbs 8:22. Hence Genesis 1:1 means that the Law was God’s instrument in the creation of
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