For the Greek word μορφωθῇ translated “is formed,” Harper gives the meaning as “to give shape to, mould, fashion, (Gal. 4:19)” (p. 273). Thus, Paul is figuratively expressing the idea that he is in spiritual labor until Christ is formed or moulded or shaped in them ...
Psa 42:5, 6) proves that, when Jesus in his human nature prayed “Remove this cup from me,” and the parallel or equivalent request, “Save me from this hour,” he was not praying to be spared during the hour, but to be kept from it, which settles the meaning of the expression ...
The Greek word is “hilasterion” which means appeasing or expiating. Another meaning for the word propitiation can also be mercy-seat. Paul when writing to the Romans expounded on why the wrath of God would fall on all of mankind who suppress the truth in unrighteousness.He also makes th...
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they also wonder how the Spirit may call readers to respond to the text today. The lived experience of contemporary people matters when questions of biblical interpretation are asked. After all, the meaning of the text “is open-ended,” says Ronald Farmer, “evolving with the creative advance...
though the words of the prophets are regarded as necessary to clarify the meaning of the events. Since the Hebrew term for “word” (davar) signifies also “deed” or “thing,” there is no clear line of demarcation between word-revelation and deed-revelation in theHebrew Bible. The biblic...
3. The Holy Spirit, Scripture's divine Author, both authenticates it to us by His inward witness and opens our minds to understand its meaning. 4. Being wholly and verbally God-given, Scripture is without error or fault in all its teaching, no less in what it states about God's acts...
For this perishable must put on the imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality.” The Greek word here is harpadso, meaning “snatched up” to be with Christ. When Christ comes to set up his earthly kingdom at the end of the tribulation, he will come with power and the holy...
Christ is the Lord of the sabbath. The simple, clear and obvious meaning of this is that He who is the Christ of God instituted the church, fulfilled the sabbath, dispensed with the sabbath, and abrogated the sabbath, in exactly the same way and to exactly the same degree as he did al...
I would like to propose the word genotheque to designate the collection of genes of an organism introduced into an appropriate host species. This short word is derived from gene and the greek root 6rylOJ (box). This last root appears with the same meaning as that proposed in several ...