We have received the following from a Manchester reader:—
I was listening to a talk in the Schools Programme, October 22nd, arranged by Stephen Potter, under the title “The Men that made the Bible” and I was interested in a point brought forward with regard to Psa. 23:4. This verse seems to be generally regarded, by those who hold that the soul is immortal, as a proof that when a person is dying, God is with them and they are then walking through the valley of the shadow of death; but, according to the speaker, the verse should read, following the original Hebrew:—
“Yea, now though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff they be the thing’s which comfort me.”
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Author: F. Whiteley
Keywords: soul, nephesh, immortal soul, eternal soul, valley of death, Valley of the shadow of death, death, shadow of death, deathbed, death bed
Bible reference(s): Job 10:21, Psalm 23:4, Jeremiah 13:16
Source: “The Valley of the Shadow,” The Testimony, Vol. 10, No. 119, November 1940, pp. 356-8.
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