Our Daily Devotional

MULE Herbivorous mammal, called “pered” in Heb. (1 Kings 18:5). It is a hybrid between a donkey and a mare or a horse and a donkey. Mules are frequently mentioned along with horses (Ps. 32:9).

WOMEN Created in the image of God as the male, she is an integral part of being called “man” (cf. Gen. 1:27: “God created man in his own image, in the image of God he

DEAD (Spirit of a) Those who claim to be “mediums” claim that they evoke them and consult them (Deut. 18:11); Their voice seems to come from beneath the earth, like that of ghosts (Is. 29:4)

DEATH In the ordinary sense: cessation of life. It did not enter into the will of God, who created man in his image, and who made him a “living soul.” In paradise, the tree of

MUSTARD His seed is mentioned as something extremely small, but to which the faith of the apostles did not even reach (Lk. 17:6). The kingdom of God is also compared to this small seed, which

MOSQUITO (gr. «Kõnõps, «small insect»; Mt. 23:24), very widespread in lagoonal places. The Egyptians protected themselves from their exasperating bites at night by sleeping under mosquito nets (Herodotus 2:95). The term mosquito (which is not

FLY (a) Insect of the order Diptera; especially the house fly (“Musca domestica”). Flies of various kinds are so annoying in hot countries (Is. 7:18; Eccl. 10:1), that the inhabitants of Ekron worshiped Baal-zebub, god

MORIA (a) Region surrounding the mountain where Abraham went to sacrifice Isaac. This is probably the country where a hill, also called Moria, later became the site of the Temple (Gen. 22:2; Ant 1:13, 1

MORE (a) Terebinth (or oak) and grove near Shechem (Gen. 12:6; Deut. 11:29, 30). Abraham, arriving from Mesopotamia, planted his royal family there when he arrived in Canaan. He erected there an altar to Jehovah,

MOUNTAIN The land of Canaan is a country of mountains and valleys (Deut. 11:11), but it features few important peaks. Three chains follow one another, oriented from north to south in a more or less