On God’s Commandments And Being Proactive Years ago, a seventh-grade English teacher introduced her grammar students to a verb’s active voice and passive voice. In the active voice, someone does something—as in, “the boy loved the girl.” In the passive voice, something is done to or for someone by someone—as in, “the girl is [...]
In Paul’s introductory remarks, he identified his letter’s recipients as, “. . . the called of Jesus Christ . . . [i.e.,] to all who are [presently] beloved of God in Rome, called saints . . .” (Rom. 1:6-7). From the apostle’s description of those to whom he dictated his letter, it seems [...]