In Greek for the Rest of Us, I give the definition of ἐν as “in, by, with.” The preposition is flexible in meaning, and often translation requires significant interpretation. I have often thought it strange that prepositions were introduced into the Greek language to bring clarity to ...
This explains everything and gives meaning to life. - Albert Einstein Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to just make man a more clever devil. -CS Lewis I believe in Christianity, as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because ...
Full of meaning as is the word, it nevertheless is not one easy to adapt to the idiom of our language, and thus in the Gospels it is usually translated "mighty works" (Mt 11:20-21,23, etc.), but miracles in Ac 2:22; Ac 8:13; Ac 19:11; 1Co 12:10,28, etc. Really it ...
when the advocates of instrumental music betake themselves to the original text of Scripture, and profess to find an unanswerable argument for the organ in the meaning of this and that Hebrew and Greek word, it becomes absolutely necessary to follow them there, and to shew that their philologica...
As we have seen, William Klein, Craig Blomberg, and Robert Hubbard assert that no one interprets anything without a set of underlying assumptions: When we presume to explain the meaning of the Bible, we do so with a set of preconceived ideas or presuppositions. These presuppositions may ...