{"id":4633,"date":"2020-07-03T07:39:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T11:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/?p=4633"},"modified":"2020-07-03T20:45:37","modified_gmt":"2020-07-04T00:45:37","slug":"run-for-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/2020\/07\/03\/run-for-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Run for peace?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The author of the book of Hebrews has an interesting choice of words in Hebrews 12:14, when he literally tells us to run after peace.\u200b<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The same word translated &#8220;strive for&#8221; in this setting is translated elsewhere as &#8220;pursue&#8221;. I think the meaning here is clear. Matthew Henry put it this way:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Peace with men, of all sects and parties, will be favorable to our pursuit of holiness. But peace and holiness go together; there can be not right peace without holiness.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The author of the book of Hebrews has an interesting choice of words in Hebrews 12:14, when he literally tells us to run after peace.\u200b Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord. The same word translated &#8220;strive for&#8221; in this setting is translated elsewhere as&hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"readmore-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/2020\/07\/03\/run-for-peace\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read <\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peace"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1MnZf-1cJ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5021,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4633\/revisions\/5021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}