Our July book is Hebrews, from the New Testament. I have opened a couple of different translations and read the first couple of verses from Chapter One where the author (scholars have ruled out Paul for this book) immediately takes us to God. How has God communicated thus far? Through the prophets. But now we have God's Son.
The Living Bible tells us "God's Son shines out with God's glory" (verse 3) while the New Revised Standard Version translates the original Greek as "He is the reflection of God's glory and the exact imprint of God's very being" and Eugene Petersen offers "This Son perfectly mirrors God, and is stamped with God's nature" (The Message).
I love the shiny nature, even luminosity, of these descriptions.
Julie Swannell
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