Sin death and beyond

SIN, DEATH AND BEYOND: M.M.NINAN
not described as “living creatures” as humans, land animals, and sea creature are (Genesis
1:20–21, 24 and 30; Genesis 2:7; Genesis 6:19–20 and Genesis 9:10–17), and the words that
are used to describe their termination are more descriptive such as “wither” or “fade” (Psalm
37:2; 102:11; Isaiah 64:6). “Plants are never the subject of haya חָיָה ” (Gerleman 1997, p. 414)
neither are they “ alive in biblical Hebrew or in second Temple Jewish literature ” (Kennard
2008, p. 169)”
Ps. 37 1-2 Do not fret because of evildoers, Be not envious toward wrongdoers. For they will wither quickly like
the grass and fade like the green herb.
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