by admin | Aug 29, 2019 | Chapter 16, Romans, Section Five
Paul blessed believers in Rome with the following benediction (Romans 16:25-27 NET): Now to him who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel and the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery that had been kept secret for long...
by admin | Jul 31, 2019 | Hope/Understanding, Section Five
The essay Jedidiah, Part 1 was written days before I began to compare Old Testament quotations in the New Testament to the Septuagint, and years before I checked all of the Masoretic text against the Septuagint. I thought of Achan’s confession as the door or...
by admin | Jun 24, 2019 | A Shadow of the Good Things, Section Five
Revisiting Is Sin Less Than Sin, Part 2 to make tables of quotations that differed in the NET parallel Greek, Stephanus Textus Receptus or Byzantine Majority Text I learned that there is some question whether τη αληθεια μη πειθεσθαι (KJV: that ye should not obey the...
by admin | May 12, 2019 | Section Five, What Kind of Carpenter is Jesus?, Who am I?
“One more thing you should know about me,” I wrote in another essay: “I usually appreciate God’s deceptiveness (the NIV translates it shrewdness, if you prefer) first, before I recognize his reliability, trustworthiness and loyalty. So I assume that I am far more...
by admin | Feb 8, 2019 | Deuteronomy, Section Five, The Fear of the Lord, Visiting Iniquity
I’ve been considering yehôvâh’s fearful pronouncement: I punish (pâqad, פקד) the sons, grandsons, and great-grandsons for the sin of the fathers who reject me…[1] By way of review, I didn’t find anything about the Hebrew word itself that would compel anyone to...