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FACTS about the BIBLE

A Watered Garden. Iu describing the future redemption and blessedness of the children of Israel, the prophet Jeremiah points out, according to our Common Version, that ‘Hneir soul shall be as a watered garden” tO'er. 31:12); while the author of Isaiah 58:11 uses the same phrase in a closely similar context, adding ‘‘thou shalt be... like a spring of water, whose waters fail not. ’ ’

Commentators point out that the word translated ‘‘watered,” both in Jor, 31:12 and Isa. 58:11, is an even stronger term, meaning properly ‘‘soaked or saturated.” In many parts of Palestine, the water supply is scanty, and the ground hard, and it is by no means easy to cultivate a garden successfully. To those who had to contend with this lack of moisture, the figure of a garden saturated with water would be a peculiarly vivid one. (These 'facts arc published daily.)

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Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 174, 26 July 1935, Page 8

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FACTS about the BIBLE Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 174, 26 July 1935, Page 8

FACTS about the BIBLE Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 174, 26 July 1935, Page 8

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