Our Daily Devotional

COMMUNION (gr. “koinonia”, from “koinos”: common to several people). Relationship within which two parties have something in common, association. Believers have fellowship with the Father and the Son (1 Jn. 1:3), with the Holy Spirit

COMMON This adjective, sometimes substantivated, is the translation of several Greek and Hebrew words and is used both in a positive sense and with a pejorative content. It generally means simply “profane,” “ordinary,” or “unclean”

MEAL The basic foodstuffs were water and bread (partly also fruits); On holidays, meat and wine were also taken. Instead of tables they generally used a board (often somewhat raised). The Israelites “lay at the

TRADE The first mention of a commercial transaction in the Bible is Abraham’s purchase of a field from Ephron the Hittite (Gen. 23:3-20). In the V. 16 mentions money in pesos, the shekel, the accepted

MIDWIFE Woman who assists parturients. God gave his blessing to the Hebrew midwives who did not want to obey the king of Egypt’s order to kill male children at birth (Gen. 35:17; 38:28; Ex. 1:15-21).

COLUMN OF CLOUD AND FIRE God led Israel through the desert with a pillar of cloud during the day and fire at night. (Ex. 13:21, 22). The pillar of cloud descended and stood at the

COLOSSIANS Epistle of the imprisoned apostle Paul (Col. 4:3, 10, 18), probably written in AD 62, during his first 2-year captivity in Rome (Acts 28:30, 31). Certain historians think that this epistle was written in

COLOSSAS City on the River Lycus in Phrygia, Asia Minor (Col. 1:2). It appears that Paul had not yet visited the city when he wrote his letter to the church there (cp. Col. 1:7; 2:1);

COLORS The Egyptians used mineral coloring substances, the Chaldeans used them to color bricks, and the Hebrews painted skins (Ex. 25:5) and wove cloth with threads of various colors (Ex. 27:16). Colors have certain symbolism:

LAME Lameness, like all other diseases, deformities or deficiencies, was a product of sin. This explains the prohibition of the exercise of the priesthood, in the Mosaic economy, to the lame, as well as to