ALPHA MAAMA (A.M.)

Pulelulu Sanuali 27, 2021 

How is it that you have found it so quickly

na‘e fēfē ho‘o ma‘u vave pehē?

Senesi 27 (Genesis 27)

(v. 20) But Isaac said to his son, “How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?” He answered, “Because the Lord your God granted me success.”

(v. 20) Pea me‘a ‘a ‘Aisake ki hono foha, Tama, na‘e fēfē ho‘o ma‘u vave pehē? Pea pehē ‘e ia, Koe‘uhi na‘e fakafekitaki ia kiate au ‘e Sihova ko ho ‘Otua.

*Commentary: David Guzik Study Notes on Genesis*

Jacob, the scoundrel, did not hesitate to bring in God as a party to his deception.

i. Jacob could do this because his only concern is for what worked. Since he (rightly) knew God that wanted him to have the birthright, he justified any lie or sin he committed in the pursuit of the birthright and told himself that it was a stand for righteousness.

ii. Jacob probably used the promise and calling of God as an excuse for sin; he justified it to himself by saying his sinful conduct acted towards the fulfillment of the promise of God.

*Tohi Vete: David Guzik ako ‘i he Tohi Senesi*

i. Naʻe vave ‘aupito hono fakahū mai ‘e Sekope ‘a e ‘Otua´ ke fakakau ki heʻene palani kākāa´. Koeʻuhi´ ko ‘ene ‘ilo naʻe finangalo ‘a e ‘Otua´ ke ne maʻu ‘a e tuʻunga hoko´, naʻa ne fakatonuhiaʻi ‘a e loi´ mo e kākāa´, kehe pe ke ne maʻu ‘a e tuʻunga hoko´, he naʻa ne pehē, ko ‘ene tuʻu hake ia maʻae kau lotu moʻoni´.

ii. Mahalo naʻe ngaueʻaki ‘e Sekope ‘a e palomesi mo e ui ‘a e ‘Otua´, ke fakatonuhiaʻi ‘a e angahala´; naʻa ne lau pe ‘a ‘ene angahala´ ko e foʻi ngaue ia te ne fakafua mai ‘a e palomesi ‘a e ‘Otua´.  

* study on the Attributes of God / ako ki he natula (ngaahi ‘ulungaanga) ‘o e ‘Otua *

GOD IS . . . (KO E ‘OTUA, ‘OKU . . )

GOD IS TRIUNE

Doctrine... 

In sum, Francis Cheynell provides a helpful summary of the doctrine of the Trinity by affirming a number of the points mentioned above:

We do believe that God is one, most singly and singularly one, and an only one: The unity of the Godhead is ... a most singular unity. ... All three Persons have one and the same single and infinite Godhead, and therefore must needs mutually subsist in one another, because they are all three one and the same infinite God[.] ... united in their one nature, not confounded in their distinct subsistences; nay though their subsistence is in one another, yet their subsistences are distinct, but the nature most singularly the same.

Ko e ‘Otua´ ko e Tolu-ʻi he-Taha

Tokāteline...

Ko e fakamatala ‘a Falakiko Seinele (ko e faikekau teolosia Pulitani) ‘oku´ ne fakamāʻopoʻopo ‘a e ngaahi poini mahuʻinga ‘o e tokāteline ‘o e Tulinitī (tolu-tahaʻi-‘Otua) kuo tau ‘osi lave ki ai:

‘Oku tau tui ‘oku taha pe ‘a e ‘Otua´, ko e tahaʻi taha, ‘oku singikulali, pea ‘oku taha mātē pe Ia: ko e ‘iunioni ‘a e ‘Uluʻi-ʻOtua´ ...ko e tahaʻi ‘iunioni.  Ko e kotoa ‘o e Pesona ‘e Toko Tolu´ ‘oku taha pe honau ‘Ulu´ pea ko e ‘Otua taʻengata tatau pe pea kuopau ke nau moʻui ‘i ha tuʻunga fetaiaki, koeʻuhi´, ko e toko tolu ‘i he ‘Otua ‘oku lauikuonga pe taha mo tatau pe ... kafa taha ‘i he natula pe ‘e taha, ‘ikai motuhia ‘i honau tuʻunga makehe´, neongo ‘oku nau taha ‘i he uho pe ‘e taha, ka ‘oku nau moʻui ‘i ha tuʻunga makehekehe, ka ko e natula´ ‘oku taha mātē pe.