by admin | Jan 26, 2024 | Christianity, Section Six, αὐτοῦ and ἑαυτοῦ
In another essay I understood τὴν παρθένον αὐτοῦ (ESV: his betrothed)1 differently from τὴν ἑαυτοῦ παρθένον (ESV: her as his betrothed and his betrothed).2 My decision was based primarily on Paul’s argument, but it isn’t the customary way these phrases...
by admin | Jan 14, 2018 | Jesus' Prayer, Section Four, To Make Holy
The next form of ἁγιάζω I’ll consider is found in Jesus’ prayer to his Father: Set them apart (ἁγίασον, a form of ἁγιάζω) in the truth; your word is truth.[1] But I plan to crawl through his prayer on my knees because I believe I can know his holiness here. I have...
by admin | Dec 2, 2013 | Section Three, Torture
Since I faulted Jonathan Edwards for making a bad argument to support the assertion in his sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” that “the great and almighty creator and king of heaven and earth” is the superlative torturer, I think it best that I look again...