Posted each Thursday, Lectionary Ruminations focuses on the Scripture Readings, taken from the New Revised Standard Version, for the following Sunday per the Revised Common Lectionary. Comments and questions are intended to encourage reflection for readers preparing to teach, preach, or hear the Word. Reader comments are invited and encouraged. All lectionary links are to the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) of the Bible via the PC(USA) Devotions and Readings website, but if you prefer another translation, feel free to use that instead. (Other references may be linked to the NRSV via the oremus Bible Browser.) Lectionary Ruminations is also cross-posted on my personal blog, Summit to Shore.
v. 10 How does one’s whole being exult? Most Presbyterians only exult with the mind. I find it interesting that both bridegroom and bride imagery is employed.
v. 11 It seems righteousness must take root and grow and does not materialize out of thin air.
v. 2 What could this new name be?
v. 1 Who, or what, is praising from the heavens? Or is it the heavens that are praising.
v. 2 How do you deal with angels?
v. 3 It seems that everything above the earth is praising God. What about everything below the earth?
v. 7 Now sea creatures below the surface of the earth join the choir.
v. 11 Some human voices finally join the chorus.
v.1-14 I think I would interpret this Psalm through an environmentalist’s lens.
v. 4 What is”full” time? Is this kairos time or the eschaton? John Shelby Spong used a phrase from this verse as the title of his book about the birth of Jesus. Why would Paul refer to Jesus being born of a woman rather than of the Virgin Mary?
v. 6 What do you think about translating “Abba” as “Daddy”?
vs. 4-7 These verses seem to base adoption as God’s children upon Jesus’ birth. So why did he have to die?
v. 22 What time was this?
v. 24 Why two turtledoves but no partridge in a pear tree or three French hens?
v. 25 Is there anything special about the name Simeon?
v. 27 What was customary under the law?
v. 32 Gentiles? I think Luke might be the only Gospel that could say this.
v. 40 Luke is long on prose but short on detail.
ADDENDUM
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