Our Daily Devotional

COHORT Roman troop unit (about 500 men) (cf. Mr. 15:16; Acts 21:31).

SULFUR It is found in deposits in Palestine. It falls like rain from heaven in the judgments of God (Gen. 19:24; Ps. 11:6; Ez. 38:22; Luke 17:29). It is a symbol of what will add

SCOURGE Name of the instrument of punishment, and of the punishment itself, inflicted by hitting leather straps, often armed with metal balls or spikes (Heb. 11:36), or with rods. The Law allowed the guilty to

AZARIAH “the Lord is my help.” Very frequent proper name. Among the characters who wear it, the main one is Azariah, king of Judah, also called Uzziah, son of Amaziah, king of Judah. Also this

FASTING Abstention from taking food, period of time within which this abstinence occurs. (a) Fasting caused by the inability to obtain food. It seems that this is where they belong: the 40 days that Moses

AYO (gr. «paidagogos»). He was originally a slave who took his master’s children to school. The law was a schoolmaster to the Jews (not to the Gentiles: Paul speaks in the first person plural, in

WASP Rather, it was a species of wild bees. God used them to harass the inhabitants of Canaan with their painful stings (Ex. 23:28; Deut. 7:20). They made their hives in the crevices of the

OSTRICH Bird of the family “struthinidae”, order “Cursores”. It is classified among the impure birds by the Law of Moses. He lives in desert places (Is. 13:21; 34:13; 43:20; Jer. 50:39). It leaves its eggs

BIRDS They are used as symbols of agents of evil (cp. Gen. 40:17); In the parable of the Sower, the birds that devoured the seed by the roadside are interpreted by Christ as “the Evil

WINNOWING FORK The fan was a kind of pitchfork, with which previously beaten wheat was thrown into the air, with which the wind carried the chaff, and the heavier grain fell to the ground (Is.