DAILY READINGS: Numbers 14; Proverbs 11; 1 Peter 3
But know this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of one’s own interpretation. 2 Peter 1:20 (NASB)
In his preface to the English Bible of 1535, Miles Coverdale had this to say about studying and understanding the Bible: “It will greatly help you to understand Scripture if you mark not only what is written, but of whom, to whom, with what words, at what time, where, to what intent, with what circumstances, considering that which goes before and that which follows.” What a great deal of misunderstanding of the Bible would have been avoided over the centuries—and still could be avoided—had Coverdale’s words been heeded and applied. —W. Ross Rainey
The Bible! The Bible! We hail it with joy,
Its truths and its glories our tongues shall employ. —R. Bradbury