{"id":80,"date":"2020-04-26T05:12:35","date_gmt":"2020-04-26T05:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/songofsongs47.com\/?p=80"},"modified":"2020-05-13T23:14:53","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T23:14:53","slug":"further-reflections-on-leviticus-114445","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/songofsongs47.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/26\/further-reflections-on-leviticus-114445\/","title":{"rendered":"Further reflections on Leviticus 11:44 &#038; 45"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\nFor I am <em>Adonai<\/em> your God; therefore, consecrate <em>(qadash) <\/em>yourselves and be holy <em>(qadowsh)<\/em>, for I am holy <em>(qadowsh)<\/em>\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:right\">Leviticus 11:44a<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Qadash: <\/em>consecrate; is a verb<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Qadowsh: <\/em>holy, sacred, set apart; is an adjective<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps at some level I can consecrate, or at least participate in the consecration of, myself (although even this would not be \u201cperfect\u201d or wholly complete in that it would need to be done again and again because of sin). To be holy, though, this I cannot do! God must, or God (Christ) in me, must do or be it for me. He must pronounce that it is so for then it is! For He is: \u201c<em>the God who gives life to the dead and calls things that are not as though they are<\/em>\u201d Romans 4:17b.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For I am <em>Adonai<\/em>, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt to be your God. Therefore, you are to be holy <em>(qadowsh)<\/em>, because I am holy <em>(qadowsh)<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:right\">Leviticus 11:45<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The charge to \u201cbe holy, for\/because I am holy\u201d is repeated here very close together seeming to emphasize the point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For I am Adonai your God; therefore, consecrate (qadash) yourselves and be holy (qadowsh), for I am holy (qadowsh)\u2026 Leviticus&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/songofsongs47.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/songofsongs47.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/songofsongs47.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songofsongs47.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songofsongs47.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/songofsongs47.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115,"href":"https:\/\/songofsongs47.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/songofsongs47.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songofsongs47.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songofsongs47.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}