it will be shown that an objective exegesis, given pre-understandings within an evangelical cultural background and presuppositions developed through the influential preaching and teaching of many evangelical pastors, can arrive at the plain meaning of the text intended by the original author to the...
The verse before us is often read as an assertion that men who have thus fallen cannot be renewed; and therefore it is the more necessary to lay stress on the simple meaning of the words, as relating neither to the absolute power of God, nor to the efforts of the Christian teacher in...
"in the sense that these Hebrews possessed the Holy Spirit as an indwelling Person who had come to take up His permanent abode in their hearts. The word is a compound of the Greek verb "to have or hold", and a preposition meaning "with" thus "to hold with." It is used...
The closeness of the connection would seem to show that the same meaning must be intended here also: "Let us--I, as your teacher, leading you on with me--press on to maturity of Christian knowledge." But if what precedes makes this reference clear, the following verses show not less ...
The objective meaning (clearly intended in Hebrews 1:3) has a long history in Greek philosophy, "the essential or basic structure or nature of an entity, substantial nature, essence, actual being, reality," or perhaps "realization" of something,4that which "stands under" appearances, "the un...
"Fix your thoughts" (NIV) and "consider" (NRSV, KJV) is the verbkatanoeō, "notice, observe," then "look at in a reflective manner, consider, contemplate." Here the meaning is probably "to think about carefully, envisage, think about, notice," here and in 10:24 (BDAG 522). ...
17 Wherein God, meaning more abundantly to shew to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed an oath: 18 That by two immutable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have the strongest comfort, we who have fled for refuge to hold fast the...
First, his name means king of righteousness, then also, king of Salem, meaning king of peace. 3 Without father, mother, or genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but resembling the Son of God,k he remains a priest forever. 4 Now consider how great this man was...
, TDNT 6:161-173) sees the meaning here as "to commit a fault" rather than "to fall away," but with no specific reference (also 10:26). A.M. Stibbs, "Hebrews," in The New Bible Commentary: Revised (Third edition; Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1970), ...