Think about this

At a recent political rally in front of the United States Supreme Court over the highly contentious issue of abortion one of the protesters held up a sign lettered in BOLD PRINT which stated,


                     PROTECTING ABORTION ACCESS IS A CATHOLIC ISSUE


Really? Someone seems to have not been listening to their priests and bishops. Roman Catholic leaders have been at the forefront of opposition to the taking of the innocent human lives of the unborn. Many non-Catholics are proud to also be pro-life.

The World's Slowest Selling Bible

The world's slowest selling Bible and possibly the world's slowest selling legitimately published book is the Coptic translation of the Bible published in 1791 by David Wilkins (1685 - 1745). The book has never sold more than two copies a year.

Wilkins was a Prussian orientalist born as David Wilke (or David Wilkius) in what is now Lithuania. As an adult he lived and worked in England as an Anglican priest, librarian, translator, and university professor. He was a specialist in Arabic, Coptic, Hebrew, Armenian, Chaldaic, and Anglo-Saxon.

Messianic Prophecies from the Bible: He Will Be Sold for Thirty Pieces of Silver

Messianic Prophecies is a recurrent segment in this blog.

Old Testament:

“And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.”

Zechariah 11:12

New Testament:

“Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests, And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver. And from that time he sought opportunity to betray him.”  Matthew 26:14-16