Our Heritage | by Fred Pearce | Volume 20, Issue 5 | September - October 2014
The Old Testament word for judgment (mishÂpat) comes from the verb shaphat, judging, and is illustrated in the proper name Jehoshaphat, God has judged. In ordinary use it would be a word of authority spoken by a judge, but as in Israel the first Judge of the nation was God, it is His laws which are…
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