{"id":2179,"date":"2011-11-07T12:28:29","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T12:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2179"},"modified":"2011-11-07T12:28:29","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T12:28:29","slug":"felix-mendelssohns-elijah,-where-in-the-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2179","title":{"rendered":"Felix Mendelssohn's Elijah, Where in the Bible?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nWhen I sang No. 4 of Elijah, &quot;If with all your hearts&quot; ...ye truly seek Me, ye shall ever surely find me...\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI remembered Dr. Tong's &quot;&#31070;&#25214;&#20154;&#65292;&#19981;&#26159;&#20154;&#25214;&#31070;&quot;. Of course, it is not to be applied in this context. As that reference related to those corrupt men who imagine their own gods.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThen there is this question, where in the Bible did Mendelssohn's piece is referring to...Of course, it is based on &quot;Seek and ye shall find...&quot; Matthew 7:7.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAfter a quick search, a prominent verse to support the lyrics is found in: Deuteronomy 4:29, Jeremiah 29:12-13.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAlthough, I wish I could find a site with all scriptural references for this oratorio. So I shall also include this entry in the Qestions category.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I sang No. 4 of Elijah, &quot;If with all your hearts&quot; ...ye truly seek Me, ye shall ever surely find me... I remembered Dr. Tong's &quot;&#31070;&#25214;&#20154;&#65292;&#19981;&#26159;&#20154;&#25214;&#31070;&quot;. Of course, it is not to be applied in this context. As that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2179\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-questions","category-theologization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}