First Love
1 John 4:19 We love him, because he first loved us.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfrsSoBkigM&ab_channel=jay-aie
🕊Blest be the tie that binds
our hearts in Christian love;
the fellowship of kindred minds
is like to that above.🕊
Having departed from the temple, Jesus said, "Do not the guests assemble in the antechamber before entering the feasthall?
There, the hands and feet are washed, the head anointed, and small foods to whet the
appetite are eaten.
Even so is the Earth the antechamber of the Kingdom of Heaven."
mid 17th century (as antichamber ): from French antichambre, from Italian anticamera, from anti- ‘preceding’ + camera (see chamber).
antechamber
/ˈantɪtʃeɪmbə/
noun: antechamber; plural noun: antechambers; noun: ante-chamber; plural noun: ante-chambers
a small room leading to a main one.
firmament (n.)
mid-13c., from Old French firmament or directly from Latin firmamentum "firmament," literally "a support, a strengthening," from firmus "strong, steadfast, enduring" (from suffixed form of PIE root *dher- "to hold firmly, support" ).
Used in Late Latin in the Vulgate to translate Greek stereoma "firm or solid structure," which translated Hebrew raqia, a word used of both the vault of the sky and the floor of the earth in the Old Testament, probably literally "expanse," from raqa "to spread out," but in Syriac meaning "to make firm or solid," hence the erroneous translation