![]() ![]() I wanted as much of the truth as I could get and even began to study philosophy, but I didn’t realize just how much of the truth I was missing out on. I dove head first into studying the Bible and reading as many great Christian books as I could get my hands on. If some part of the truth is left out, then it is not really the truth.Īs I said, I was a Bible Christian at the time, having discovered in college a personal relationship with Jesus, Who is the Truth. Truth is not just one piece of the truth, but the whole thing, beginning, middle and end. ![]() Then, if you took the first, 14th and 27th letters, the first, middle and last, you would have the letters that make up the word emmet. If the whole twenty-two letter alphabet were listed out plus the five final forms of the letters that have one, there would be twenty-seven characters. Some of the Hebrew letters have two forms: a form for when the letter appears at the end of a word and a form for when the letter appears any other time. Emmet means the whole truth: beginning, middle and end, and this meaning is based on the word itself and its relation to the Hebrew Alphabet. The word itself has a structure that makes it mean more than just a truth or this or that truth. The one lesson that I will never forget was our professor’s explanation of the Hebrew word emmet, which means “truth.” But it means “truth” in a very specific sense. By examining the construction of the words, deeper meanings and relationships between terms could be extracted. One of the important lessons that we learned about the Hebrew language is that there are many hidden treasures in its words. He was as quirky as any professor could be, but he was full of stories and experiences that related directly to what he was teaching. The class was taught by an orthodox Jewish professor of computer science. To add to the excitement, this was also the first time the university was offering biblical Hebrew. James Madison University is a secular state school, and there were no other Bible classes offered, let alone biblical language classes. As a dedicated Bible Christian, I had a strong desire to learn the original languages of the Scriptures, and I jumped at the chance to take a class on biblical Hebrew. It was my senior year of college, and I had room for one elective.
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