DAILY TEXT, for Sunday, July 24. 2016

[Queen Esther]

Scriptroll  with  a  Hebrew  comment  to  Habakuk  ( roll  1QpHab, 7 and 6 )

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That good news that you heard, was preached in all creation under heaven. Col. 1:23.

http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/dt/r1/lp-e/2016/7/24

The common, or Koine, Greek language helped to promote good communication and unity among the early Christian congregations. Greek was widely spoken and understood. Thus, God’s servants could communicate with all kinds of people, and this contributed to the spread of the good news. Moreover, Jews living in Egypt had translated the Hebrew Scriptures into Greek. People were familiar with this Septuagint version, and the early followers of Christ quoted freely from it. How could Christians use the Scriptures in their ministry? Scrolls were cumbersome, for they had to be rolled and unrolled, and usually there was writing on only one side of the parchment. The Gospel of Matthew alone would fill an entire scroll. But then came the codex—the earliest form of a book. It was a collection of pages bound together. A reader could open a codex and easily locate a passage of Scripture. w15 2/15 3:4, 11, 12