#agur

[wisdomfish]

This would confound the Jews...

This aspect of God’s nature was not fully revealed in the Old Testament, but there are some intriguing hints of plurality in the Godhead in the Old Testament. For instance, while contemplating the incomprehensibility of God, Agur, the author of Proverbs 30, says:

Who has ascended to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has wrapped up the waters in a garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son’s name? Surely you know! (Proverbs 30:4, emphasis added).

Agur laments his ignorance (30:1 ff). The knowledge of eternal truths and power over the creation implied in the first question is only possessed by God. So when Agur asks, “What is his name?” every good Jew would answer, “Yahweh”.

But then he goes on to ask, “and what is his son’s name?” 

This would confound the Jews who lived before the revelation of the Trinity because it explicitly indicates that God has a Son. But Christians living in light of the revelation of Jesus can see a clear reference to Jesus, the Son of God, in this proverb, long before God explicitly revealed the doctrine of the Trinity in the New Testament.

~ Lita Sanders

#godhead #agur #trinity #jew #yahweh

[shellyscribbles]

I wrote almost 2k today so here are some scribbles.

              “And here I must leave you.” Chiron said with a friendly smile. “I trust you know which door?”

              Zuriel stopped and turned toward him before glancing down the disused hall. “Yeah.” He said softly.

              “Very good.” Chiron bowed, turned and vanished quickly around the corner.

              Zuriel sighed and started toward the large ornate door near the end of the hall before it made a sharp right. After knocking and receiving his bid to enter, he took hold of the cold metal handle and pushed the heavy door in.

              The study was quiet and dimly lit.

              “Lock the door please.” Agur’s voice drifted gently from where he stood in the pool of light beneath the window.

              Zuriel pushed the door closed and slid the bolt into place before turning back to the king who gestured absently to the chair nearest him as he remained looking intently out the window into the night. He took the offered seat and sat in silence until the king sighed and quietly took the chair across from him.

              “You are familiar with the Elder system?” He asked after another moment of silence.

              “Uh, yeah. Each race has one member who lives longer than normal.”

              Agur let out a soft laugh. “That’s a way of putting it. I am near ten thousand years old.” He frowned and after a pause, added, “I think.” He drew a deep breath and continued, “It’s immortality in a way, but immortality doesn’t come with other…adjustments to assist the Elder. I was one of the first children born on Vale. I knew Abner; was chosen by him to be king.”

              The King frowned again as he looked absently at the floor between them. “I don’t remember any of this of course.” He gestured to the shelves behind him and looked at Zuriel. “I know things because they are recorded, not because I remember them.

              “I have outlived generations. I had a wife and children. I have lost track of my lineage; I am in some way related to all Wizards in Vale I am sure by now. That sort of loss does something to you even if you can’t remember the loss.”

              Zuriel’s brow furrowed as he tried to grasp the purpose of the king’s words.

              The king went on, “I was fixated on the past and the history of the races and how they came to Vale. I discovered and traversed the old bridges. I found Cardelsiff, where Wizards originated and studied the original magics of my race. Studied the subtle differences between magic there and magic here. It was there that I encountered Duelings and their use in war.”

              “Differences? Is that how I was able to gain three magics instead of two?”

              “No. The reality of what a Dueling is accounts for that.”

              Zuriel frowned.

              “Dueling is not a Vale word, or English, as you must still think of it. Dueling is a Cardelian term. I allowed the misperception as it was helpful to hiding the truth. And the truth must still remain hidden. I have been in isolation near a century now to protect it, but I cannot trick you into saving Vale. You must choose to do so freely.”

              “Trick me?” Zuriel tilted his head, a sense of dread rising in his gut.

#The Shadow of Vale #TSoV #Agur #Zuriel #3rd draft scribbles #Kind of an abrupt cut off #but it immediately gets into a huge spoiler

[carltonblaylock]

The Words of Agur

The Words of Agur

Proverbs 30:1-23 30The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, his utterance. This man declared to Ithiel—to Ithiel and Ucal: 2Surely I am more stupid than any man, And do not have the understanding of a man. 3I neither learned wisdom Nor have knowledge of the Holy One. 4Who has ascended into heaven, or descended? Who has gathered the wind in His fists? Who has bound the waters in a garment? Who has…

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#Agur #words

[kdmiller55]

A Lot to Learn

A Lot to Learn

10 Do not slander a servant to his master,     lest he curse you, and you be held guilty. 11 There are those who curse their fathers     and do not bless their mothers. 12 There are those who are clean in their own eyes     but are not washed of their filth. 13 There are those—how lofty are their eyes,     how high their eyelids lift! 14 There are those whose teeth are swords,     whose fangs…

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#Agur #arrogance #folly #foolishness #godlessness #holiness #humility #Job #laziness #pride #Proverbs #Proverbs 30 #repentance #sin #sinfulness #Solomon #the ant #the way of the wise #wisdom

[bunitivity]

Can’t wait to see Usopp his kick ass!!!

#one piece #usopp #usopp one piece #god usopp #one piece spoilers #black beard #black beard pirates #van agur #black beard one piece #van augur #van augur one piece #my art

[preacherpollard]

Wisdom 101's Syllabus

Wisdom 101’s Syllabus

Friday’s Column: Brent’s Bent Brent Pollard I doubt I’ve ever fully appreciated the book of Proverbs more than now as I’ve undertaken the task of teaching it in a Bible class. The reason for this, I suppose, is that I always viewed Proverbs as a group of wise sayings that one could visit and choose from as you might items on a buffet. “Yes, I will take a side of the ‘virtuous woman’ with ‘train…

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#Agur #anthropomorphic #doppelganger #folly #Lemuel #Proverbs #Solomon #wisdom

[isa-belle1367]

I like to believe that when desmonds emotions are high, he is a lot more susceptible to bleeding.

Now, we can probably assume that while desmond is in the animus, he picked up his ancestors' language. (Such as Arabic, italian, native American, ect.)

Now I like to think that when he is speaking, one of his ancestors' language he acts more like them, such as when he's speaking native American, he behaves like Connor ect.

So now just imagine desmond getting into an argument with Bill, then slipping into Altair and scaring the ever living shit out of Bill. Because let's be honest, Altair is probably terrifying to argue with.

(Altair seems like he would get that really intimidating stare, and also go really quiet. Probably throw in a "do you wanna say that again")

#desmond miles #assassin's creed #connor kenway #altair #altair ibn la'ahad #bill miles #bill miles A+ parenting #bleeding effect #altair is terrifying to agure with #he probably has that really intimidating stare and he gets really quiet #im scared of altair #silly desmond

[pettyprocrastination]

seeing women on booktok defend themselves with "he should have expected it since he's famous" about a hockey player who said he's uncomfortable with strangers making sexual comments about him is literally blowing my mind.

#you are using the same agurment reddit bros use so they can sexualize margot robbie how do you think youre winning this #tj talks

[queerassdragon]

If you think irseal is justified in their actions, please unfollow me. I would say worse. Just leave.

#no one is supporting the terrorist group but you cant agure against the genocide because omg ther r bad scary peepo ther!! #id rather support scared oppressed people than a fucking fascist army raised to dehumanise these people from birth going to rape and murder #it twists my bones and makes me want to kill myself #like it hurts to see people TREATED LITERALLY JUST LIKE THE JEWISH PEOPLE JUST LESS ROUNDING UP AND MORE BURNING THEM IN THEIR OWN HOMES #im done with “ohh its antisemiic!!!” i hate the israel and their people #no jewish people as a whole #most of them arent even religious they just know they need the fucking excuse #please i neeeed someone to help me cope with this i dont know how to help im too tired too busy and too poor

[power-chords]

It was into this context of legal disjuncture for communications that the telephone arrived. The unanswered question of privacy, combined with the new features of the telephone, shaped the institutional and cultural identity of the new device.

Like the telegraph, the telephone was initially a high-cost specialty service reserved for a business clientele. From the opening of the first exchange in 1878, the telephone suffered from some of the same privacy challenges that plagued the telegraph: the telephone required a network of physical hardware and personnel to convey messages from sender to receiver, and human operators knew who was calling whom and for how long. For surveillance, the telephone differed from the telegraph in two crucial respects: first, while telephone operators may have known who was calling whom, they did not know the contents of the conversations. Second, and more importantly, as a real-time, voice-to-voice technology, the telephone encouraged conversations. The telegraph had proven its worth as a rapid transmitter of short messages over long distances, but the telephone offered something new: the real-time nature of its communication, coupled with the difficulty of outsiders transcribing conversations, made the telephone ideal for planning crimes. These features drew criminals and investigators alike to the new device: “Telephone customers were far more likely to reveal their criminal plans into a telephone than they were to a telegraph operator. In order to use this new technology, customers did not have to go to an office and first communicate their messages to others who would then relay them to the recipient. Billing occurred at the end of the month, based on the time the telephone was used, not the number of syllables used. All these factors made telephone customers far less cautious in the words they chose.” Thus the institutional and technological aspects of the telephone had a large effect on early telephone culture: flat-rate monthly billing, combined with the oral nature of the telephone, encouraged customers to discuss and elaborate more than they could have in telegrams. For investigators to make use of this information and connect it with other clues, they would need to have recordings of conversations.

Colin Agur, Negotiated Order: The Fourth Amendment, Telephone Surveillance, and Social Interactions, 1878–1968. Information & Culture, Vol. 48, No. 4, 2013.

#once I was invisible for all the world to see #colin agur #telephones #communications #new media

[lysendesteiner]

The metamorphosis is about to begin. Objective: kill the hamster. You have been turning and turning blindly inside the wheel for too long, stuck inside the inertia of a Ferris wheel. Everything is (and has been) an absurd repetition. Some species of insects, amphibians, molluscs, crustaceans, cnidarians and echinoderms undergo transformations. But you don't visualise jellyfish, frogs or butterflies in the time you spend collapsed on the sofa. You see a snake that bites its own tail forming a circle: the ouroboros, a circle circling within a circle; a symbol of senseless struggle, the cyclical nature of events and the impossibility of something new beginning despite all efforts.

— Miren Agur Meabe. Burning Bones

#miren agur meabe #meabe #burning bones #basque literature #literature #literature quote #english

[newvesselpress]

"Yes, it's true: my grandfather's grandfather's grandfather was a slave trader." Click below to watch Booker Prize winner Jessica Cohen and author Agur Schiff read from PROFESSOR SCHIFF'S GUILT, a sharp, funny satire of contemporary attitudes toward racism & the legacy of colonialism, on Translators Aloud:

youtu.be/6miWosYieeY

#Professor Schiff's Guilt #slavery #Agur Schiff #translation #Jessica Cohen #Israeli literature #Africa #Translators Aloud #New Vessel Press

[iknaenmal]

ME VOY A DORMIR

#cuando me despierte ya no tendré que hablar en español o vasco. oh bueno #agur gabon denoi :) #ikna talks

[kdmiller55]

Getting to Know God

Getting to Know God

1 The words of Agur son of Jakeh. The oracle. The man declares, I am weary, O God;     I am weary, O God, and worn out. 2 Surely I am too stupid to be a man.     I have not the understanding of a man. 3 I have not learned wisdom,     nor have I knowledge of the Holy One. 4 Who has ascended to heaven and come down?     Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has wrapped up the waters in a…

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#Agur #folly #God #godliness #holiness #knowing God #Proverbs #Proverbs 30 #questions #righteousness #Solomon #the ways of God #who is the Lord? #wisdom

[euphorictrait]

just the usual honey and lorenzo arguing post…

#they really cant be in the same room #lorenzo is lowkey trash #how r u aguring about parenting when you see your kid once a week #i cant with him #deluca legacy #deluca*gen1 #honeydeluca #lorenzoblack

[talonzane]

ejsy od upit gsbptoyr vp;pt?

fewwb LI(

#r'kib /'bw #'aj nw agur