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SOURCEWebster's dictionary defines the word 'source' as "any thing or place from which something comes from or arises, origin." It comes from the Middle English, sours. This word is from the Hebrew shoresh, the word for 'root'. The peculiar Hebrew sound of 'sh' becomes an 's' sound as it travels through the western languages. Man has been searching for the 'source' of life for centuries, to try to understand how everything came to be. Many people conduct geneological studies in order to trace the source of their family roots. The movie "Roots" is a good example of this. Sha'ul tells the 'gentiles' that the natural tree that they are grafted into is the 'root' or 'source' that supports them. Our Messiah is said to be a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his (Jesse's) roots. (Yesha'yahu 11:1) The genealogies in Mattityahu and Luke are given to show where the source of our 'root' comes from. This is why human ancestry is expressed as a tree. A 'root' begins with a seed, so inevitably, all believers have the same root, for there is only one good seed.
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