From bf4578eee9b0493de63025137f9476765ef7ec60 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Obiwon Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2024 16:45:59 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update mal/04/02.md --- mal/04/02.md | 11 +++-------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/mal/04/02.md b/mal/04/02.md index 9eea92d4c5..08ec15792a 100644 --- a/mal/04/02.md +++ b/mal/04/02.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # you who fear my name -Here "my name" stands for Yahweh himself. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]]) +Here "my name" stands for Yahweh himself. # the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings @@ -8,13 +8,8 @@ This can mean 1) Yahweh, who always acts righteously, will come and heal his peo # healing in its wings -Possible meanings are 1) the act of healing someone is spoken of as if it were an object that the sun carried to people by means of its wings or 2) the healing takes place under the wings, that is, in the security God gives his people. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-abstractnouns]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]]) +Possible meanings are 1) the act of healing someone is spoken of as if it were an object that the sun carried to people by means of its wings or 2) the healing takes place under the wings, that is, in the security God gives his people. # wings -It was common in the Ancient Near East to speak of the sun as if it had wings, with which it moved across the sky. Possible meanings are 1) the sun's life-giving rays of light are spoken of as if they were its wings or 2) the wings are said to cover God's people so as to give them peace and safey. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]]) - -# You will go out, and you will leap like calves from the stall - -Here the redeemed people of Yahweh are spoken of as if they were young bulls released from their stalls, allowed to go out into their pasture. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-simile]]) - +It was common in the Ancient Near East to speak of the sun as if it had wings, with which it moved across the sky. Possible meanings are 1) the sun's life-giving rays of light are spoken of as if they were its wings or 2) the wings are said to cover God's people so as to give them peace and safey. \ No newline at end of file