Sunday, September 30, 2007

Crushed

The name Gethsemane means “oil press”. The following is a description of the production of olive oil in Ancient Israel.

“In the fall harvested olives were brought from the terraced orchards and spread out on the flat circular platform to be crushed with the heavy stone roller. The oil ran through the surrounding channel into the adjacent rock-cut vat.”

“He was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed.” (Isaiah 53:5)

[References: MacArthur Study Bible note on John 18:1,
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~semitic/HOAI/adultmain.cgi?article=oil-wine.htm]

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