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| | Nathanael |
 | | Furthermore, the parents of Nathanael, believing that their baby was a “gift of God,” would have been horrified if somebody had told them that God, who “is love” (1 John 4:8, 16), had lovingly given them a sin-infected child! |
 | | However, Nathanael, as he walked to meet Jesus, was shocked to hear such words. |
 | | If Nathanael was called “Bartholomew,” then his father was “Tolmai,” a complimentary name meaning “abounding in furrows” (Gesenius, 865), referring to the “furrows” or “ridges” in a cultivated wheat field as the farmer prepares “the earth” looking to the time the “grain” will be harvested (Psalm 65:9-10). |
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