A punctuation correction that turns into a doctrine. Isaiah 9:6 names the child, and Neville insists there is no comma between Wonderful and Counselor: there were no punctuation marks in ancient Hebrew, none whatsoever, not even breaks as paragraphs, so the comma is an editor's. There are four names and not five, in keeping with the fourfold gospel - Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace - and he reads them as four stages rather than four epithets. Wonderful Counselor is omniscience itself: of a being completely awake you could ask nothing that would not have the automatic answer. Mighty God is divine omnipotence, and when you see that might you see it personified as a man; look into his eyes and you see might as you have never known might before. Everlasting Father is third and comes when the son is given - Father forever. Prince of Peace is last, at the very end, when you are about to take off the garment for the last time: my peace I leave with you, not as the world giveth give I unto you, a peace beyond understanding that cannot be disturbed. Kept as a child of the birth prophecy, whose description still lists the titles with the comma in it; this motif is the correction and the sequence.
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Isaiah 9:6 | His name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace
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Don’t put a comma between Wonderful and Counselor as so many Bibles have
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LectureThe Fourfold Gospel
Wonderful Counselor, that’s omniscience itself. You could ask nothing of a being who is completely awake that would not have the automatic answer, for there is omniscience.
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LectureThe Fourfold Gospel
Don’t put a comma between Wonderful and Counselor as so many Bibles have. Bear in mind that there were no punctuation marks in the ancient Hebrew, none whatsoever
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