Paul's Passing Thoughts

Despite the popularity of the traditional hymn “Rock of Ages”, the expression itself is not found anywhere in the Bible – unless you are using the ever-popular “reformed” Bible, the ESV, where it can be found in Isaiah 26:4.  But that expression doesn’t quite capture the full meaning of the verse.

The Hebrew language is “ideomatic”, meaning that it does not necessarily have grammatical structure like noun, verb, adjective, subject, predicate, etc.  Much like oriental “ideograms”, Hebrew words create a picture of an idea being expressed.  The meme below probably best captures the idea expressed in Isaiah 26:4.

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