Werner Vorstman Instruments for reading Scripture closely https://wernervorstman.nl/ 2026-09-11T22:13:12Z Werner Vorstman How God takes back a people he sent away https://wernervorstman.nl/articles/israel-and-the-certificate-of-divorce/ 2026-08-27T00:00:00Z A common argument makes Calvary the legal mechanism that removes the prohibition of Deuteronomy 24. Tested against the original text it fails at four points — and Jeremiah raises the question himself, centuries earlier, and answers it. What a cross-reference actually claims https://wernervorstman.nl/articles/what-a-cross-reference-claims/ 2026-08-18T00:00:00Z The column of references in the margin of a study Bible is not a measurement of the text. It is a record of what readers have judged, and it is worth more once you know that. Sitting at the right hand — how Hebrews quotes Psalm 110 https://wernervorstman.nl/articles/hebrews-and-psalm-110/ 2026-08-04T00:00:00Z A Hebrew psalm and a Greek letter cannot be compared word by word. Put the Septuagint between them and the quotation becomes visible at the level of the original. Counting from the new moon, and where Passover lands https://wernervorstman.nl/articles/counting-from-the-new-moon/ 2026-07-21T00:00:00Z Whether the month opens at the conjunction or at the first visible crescent moves every appointed day by a day or two. Here is what the arithmetic says over four thousand years.