Isaac and Jacob

What was it like, what did we get? Ominously dark, angry Bay, churning like unto chaos, hurricane surge lapping up close to W. Beach Drive in low areas down front, blustery wind and gusts. Little rain. 

Still a hurricane making landfall at this moment. May some drought areas be blessed by rain as Isaac moves inland. And let all the people say -- Amen.

Speaking of Isaac -- Abraham, Isaac and Jacob -- this coming Sunday morning we begin five Sundays of reading through the Letter of Jacob -- 

ιακωβος θεου και κυριου ιησου χριστου δουλος

Jacob God and Lord Jesus Christ slave 

Hebrew Yaakov to Greek Iakobou translates through several language strains to the English names Jacob, James and Jack. James is said to be the Anglo-Saxon strain of Yaakov and Iakobou that emerged nearly a century before the King James Version in the 1525-26 New Testament of William Tyndale, reportedly first to translate the Bible direct from original Hebrew and Greek into English and print it. So, Greek original, it’s the Letter of Jacob, translated to us as the Letter of James -- Tyndale had it "Iames."

One of my favorites.

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