the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Five
Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types
or A number that describes the weakness of every human being.
Every chapter number five in the Bible contains some story of man's weakness and inability.
Examples:
ge5. Although men lived many years, they must eventually die.
ex5. GOD's people in their weakness were crushed under their oppressors.
le5. GOD recognizes the poverty and inability of His children and gives them the privilege of bringing turtle doves which cost nothing instead of larger offerings which cost much.
es5. The weakness of Haman is revealed in his inability to conquer Mordecai.
mr5. Men were too weak to conquer or control the man in the tombs.
joh5. The man at the pool was too weak to enter and his friends were too weak to help.
re5. No man was found who was able to open the book.
All the other chapters in the Bible numbered five contain some mark and proof of human weakness and inability.
Matthew 14:17 (c) The five loaves were certainly an insufficient supply to feed the great multitude.
Matthew 25:15 (c) The five talents only produced another five talents. They represent an insufficient amount in the hands of an insufficient man. He only produced an amount equal to that which he began. Man cannot be trusted with very much.
Luke 16:28 (c) These five brothers were helpless to keep themselves out of hell.
John 4:18 (c) The five husbands were not enough to satisfy this woman and to fill her heart with the peace and the joy that she craved.
1 Corinthians 14:19 (c) Five words fitly spoken are valuable but it takes a great many more than that to reveal GOD's will and to instruct the Christian properly. Man has five fingers on the hand, five toes on the foot, and five senses. He is weak and impotent.
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Watson, Walter. Entry for 'Five'. Wilson's Dictoinary of Bible Types. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/wdt/f/five.html. 1957.
