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Protestant Cullmann here seems to side with the Catholics. There is scant doubt, he says, that the Matthew text is both accurate and very old. Furthermore, the meaning of the original Aramaic is crystal-clear. "Kepha" was the Aramaic word for "rock"; it is also the name by which Christ called Peter...
...keep informed and crystal-clear...
...with the Marker. Officials of the Federazione Italiana Pesca Sportiva (Italian Sport Fishing Federation) dropped a weighted measuring line 148 ft. down into the crystal-clear water. Bucher, now 40, and eager to win back the record he once held at 98 ft., failed on his first try; the pressure dislodged his mask. After a half-hour rest, he went over the side again, close to the measuring cable. Down he went, while photographers with special equipment recorded the descent. After a long minute and 17 seconds, while anxious officials scanned the choppy water, Bucher bobbed to the surface, beaming...
...safety of the U.S. demanded that the plants be kept open. Truman was not usurping powers of Congress; he had invited Congress to pass a law covering the situation the day after the seizure. "The President said he would abide by whatever Congress did," said Perlman. "He made that crystal-clear." Birdlike little Justice Frankfurter squeaked in agitation. "Are you suggesting that because Congress did not act that that confirmed the President's action?" he asked. You could infer, said Perlman weakly, that Congress was content to let the President's action stand...
...Albert Barnett, professor of New Testament at Atlanta's Emory University, insisted that the worst thing that anybody could say about McMichael is that he is a "naive, noble Christian." Said Dr. Henry Hitt Crane of Detroit's Central Methodist Church: "His is a crystal-clear Christianity which we must cherish. He is the one symbol on whom we can all agree. He is our flag. If you haul down this flag, you virtually capitulate the liberal cause in the Methodist Church...