In this context, concepts of continuity and discontinuity tend to crop up. To the extent that God’s great future is not simply the outcome of the renewal of human life now taking place, we are to speak of discontinuity. But complete discontinuity is not considered possible. What can be ex...
Otherwise the meaning of the passage will be missed. For the reader to get the meaning necessitates that he come to the realization of this designed ambiguity (admixture of definite concepts) in the one expression. As we consider this writing technique in several verses, we will see that at...
Admittedly, David Wright argues that in the Torah, in contrast to the Laws of Hammurabi, the meaning of the law is not a literal cutting off of hand or gouging out of eye, but a monetary payment. See, David P. Wright, Inventing God’s Law: How the Covenant Code of the Bible Used ...
were adapted Biblical or Mishnaic words, which no longer functioned in their original meaning in the generation of revival or were unknown before the revival.In this paper will be described some modern military weapons in their Biblical context and the process of their adaptation to the modern ...
Derivation of the botanical name: Lilium, Latin li, white; +lium, flower; Greek leirion, the name applied to the eastern Mediterranean Lilium candidum (candidum, meaning shining or pure white.) The Hebrew word Shoshan (shushan) from Aramaic: shoshanta, שושנתא (rose); Arabi...
Of course, this does not make any sense, but this is what the guru, John Walton, would have us believe from p50 of his book The Lost World of Genesis, where he says: “the meaning of the repeated formula ‘it was good’, which I propose refers to functioning properly…functional readi...
It is plain that the proposition, "Jesus is the Christ," when understood in the latitude of meaning which we have shown belongs to it, contains a complete summary of the truth respecting the divine method of salvation. To believe that proposition, rightly understood, is to believe the Gospel...
It also happens that, in perfectly good faith, he changes passages which seem to him corrupt because he fails to understand them, that he adds a word which he deems necessary for the elucidation of the meaning, that he substitutes a more correct grammatical form, or what he considers a ...
שֶׁלֶם is the sacrifice or retribution restoring peace, and thus the meaning of σωτήριον touches upon the meaning of propitiation. "From this comparison, therefore, of the N.T.. the Sept., and the Hebrew, we gather the following conclusions: Propitiation, giving ...
–Interpretation:Emphasis on grammatical-historical exegesis, focusing on the original meaning of texts based on their historical and literary contexts². –Role of Preaching and Sacraments:Preaching and sacraments are viewed as means of grace, grounded in Scriptural commands and ordinances, administered...