Truth or Theology, Part Two

                                                           

                                     




One of the things I like about Hebrew is its simplicity yet it is profound! Let's look at Pilate's question to Yeshua: "What is truth?" Did he really want the answer? They weren't even thinking in the same language! Here's what Pilate said translated from Latin:

"Quid est Veritas?"  Notice the word for truth, veritas. In Roman mythology, Veritas, meaning truth, is the Goddess of Truth. She is depicted both as a virgin dressed in white and as the "naked truth" (nuda veritas) holding a hand mirror. Veritas is also the name given to the Roman virtue of truthfulness, which was considered one of the main virtues any good Roman should possess. To Pilate, truth was personified as a goddess above all humans, unattainable by mere men. It was also a virtue, one that Pilate did not think he had attained by his lackadaisical question!

Now let us look at the word for truth in translated Hebrew: EMeT. First it comes from the word AMaN, which means to support or make firm. Second it is composed of the First, Middle, and Last letters of the Hebrew Alef-Bet. This reminds me of the oath one takes when swearing in as a witness:
Do you promise to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?
The Alef, the First letter represents Yah. Take Him away and you have Mem-Tav, which spells death. There is no truth apart from Yah's Word, and more specifically, there is no truth apart from Yah.
Yeshua is the Word made flesh, He is the Truth.

Truth in the flesh was standing before Pilot and he could not see it. Perhaps that is why Yeshua didn't bother to answer his question?

"Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words." Proverbs 23:9

Bonus: {Additionally, the Alef and the Tav point to Yeshua, (the first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet) the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last. The Mem in between represents death. Paul tells us death is swallowed up in victory, leaving the Alef-Tav, which in Paleo Hebrew means Strength of the Covenant!}