by admin | Aug 30, 2012 | Paul's OT Quotes, Section Two, Septuagint Quotations
The note in the NET lists no one is declared righteous before him as an Old Testament allusion rather than a quotation. Paul Blue Letter Bible (Septuagint) NET Bible (Greek parallel text) no one is declared righteous before him Romans 3:20 (NET) οὐ δικαιωθήσεται...
by admin | Aug 2, 2012 | Chapter 1, Romans, Section Two
The children who came of age in a population where the worship of created things was firmly established know better than anyone that the worship of created things is a waste of time and effort. At that moment they have an opportunity to turn back to the worship of...
by admin | Jul 13, 2012 | Saul and Barnabas, Section Two
The end of their first mission in Pisidian Antioch became a pattern of sorts for Paul and Barnabas (Acts 13:49, 50; 14:1, 2 NET): So the word of the Lord was spreading through the entire region. But the Jews incited the God-fearing women1 of high social standing and...
by admin | May 28, 2012 | Section One
I have gone through similar changes in my response to Paul as those I mentioned in response to Jesus. There was a time when I thought Paul had written extraordinary claims, statements so exaggerated that they should never be taken literally or at face value. Not the...
by admin | May 18, 2012 | Section One, Sexual Immorality
Perhaps this is as good a time as any to say that I take it for granted that Jesus spoke Greek, and that those who heard him understood him perfectly well in what was by then, more than three centuries after the conquest of Alexander the Great, their native tongue. ...