Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and also do this or that.” James 4:15 NASB If the Lord wills – If the Lord wills, from now on you will find us at: Borgo Regale, 1 Parma 43121 Italy A new chapter begins. All donations sent by check should still be mailed to:…
While I was with them, I was keeping them in Your name which You have given Me; and I guarded them and not one of them perished but the son of perdition, so that the Scripture would be fulfilled. John 17:12 NASB Would be fulfilled– Yeshua claims that the betrayal of Judas (son of perdition) is the fulfillment of…
God heard the lad crying; and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What is the matter with you, Hagar? Do not fear, for God has heard the voice of the lad where he is. Genesis 21:17 NASB Crying– I’m reading a book by Julia Blum. It purports to be an examination…
Indeed, I was born through iniquity; with sin my mother conceived me. Psalm 51:5 (David Lambert translation) Born– My goodness, what theological mileage has been fueled with this verse! Augustine told us that it confirmed the essential sinfulness of human beings. It is a standard proof-text for the doctrine of original sin. Others have tried to…
“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.” Exodus 20:2 NASB Brought you out – Israel Finkelstein makes some challenging points in the book, The Quest for the Historical Israel. He notes that archeology is not in the business of exegesis. Exegesis is the process of…
(Formerly in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, he used to say, “Come, and let us go to the seer”; for he who is called a prophet now was formerly called a seer.) 1 Samuel 9:9 NASB Prophet/Seer – Once in awhile, if you are paying attention, you run across a sentence…
They seized upon that statement, discussing with one another what rising from the dead meant. Mark 9:10 NASB Meant – Do you find this verse a bit odd? It suggests that the disciples didn’t quite know what Yeshua was talking about when he told them to keep quiet until the Son of Man should rise…
As we come close to the end of 2016, I thought it useful to articulate as best I can how I approach the Scriptures. This is really a simplified version of what I think about the paradigms of the authors. I try my best to figure out what they thought and how they viewed the…
What advantage does man have in all his work which he does under the sun? Ecclesiastes 1:3 NASB What – Want to try a little exercise? Let’s see what it takes to exegetically analyze this single verse. We’ll take it a step at a time. We’ll attempt to build a model that can be used…
How do we read and understand the Bible? Most of us began this process by simply picking up a translation and reading the words as if they were written by one of our contemporaries. What I mean is that even though we know the Bible was written centuries ago, we treat the words and ideas…
