Commentaries
epub |eng | 2018-12-06 | Author:Robert Alter

( Category: Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) April 21,2019 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:R. H. Charles [Charles, R. H.]

And through it [they are preserved and] their paths are preserved, And their course is not destroyed. Close of the Third Parable 26. And there was great joy amongst them, ...
( Category: Sacred Writings March 23,2019 )
epub |eng | 2009-01-27 | Author:Linda Belleville & Jon Laansma & J. Ramsey Michaels

With regard to this seventh point, that to which the potential elder holds fast is “the trustworthy message he was taught.” The phrase “trustworthy message” (ho pistos logos [TG4103/3056, ZG4412/3364]) ...
( Category: New Testament March 8,2019 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Alberto [Alberto]

( Category: Commentaries October 29,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-02-19 | Author:R. Alan Cole [Cole, R. Alan]

c. Who is under the curse? (3:10–14) Paul must now swing around at once to meet a flank attack, real or expected. The Judaizers will have been fuming with impatience ...
( Category: New Testament April 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-06-18 | Author:Michael Green [Green, Michael]

e. The emptiness of the false teachers (2:17–22) 17. After his excursus on Balaam, Peter returns to the attack. The seducers are described in two brilliant metaphors. They are springs ...
( Category: New Testament April 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-07-04 | Author:Colin Kruse [Kruse, Colin]

Theology In 4:7–18 Paul juxtaposes statements about present sufferings in the carrying out of his ministry that contribute to his outward wasting away with the inward renewal that enables him ...
( Category: New Testament April 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-06-08 | Author:N. T. Wright [Wright, N. T.]

ii. Therefore, do not submit to Jewish regulations (2:16–23) a. These things were mere preparations for Christ’s new age (2:16–19). As often with Paul, the most significant word is the ...
( Category: New Testament April 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-05-15 | Author:Leon Morris [Morris, Leon]

4. Paul’s self-control (9:24–27) Athletic contests were common in the Greek world, and the Isthmian Games, second only to the Olympic Games, were held every two years at Corinth. Paul ...
( Category: New Testament April 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-01-15 | Author:Francis Foulkes [Foulkes, Francis]

d. Renewed prayer (3:14–21) 14. Now Paul takes up again the words with which he began in 3:1, For this reason, and this time he utters his prayer. It has ...
( Category: New Testament April 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-08-14 | Author:I. Howard Marshall [Marshall, I. Howard]

f. The return journey to Antioch (14:21–28) Derbe marked the easternmost extremity of the missionary tour, lying as it did on the east border of Galatia. After evangelism there the ...
( Category: New Testament April 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-07-06 | Author:R. Alan Cole [Cole, R. Alan]

iv. The Pharisees demand a sign (8:10–13) This is an account of a mission to Dalmanutha (or Magadan, Matt. 15:39) apparently on the opposite shore of the lake (10). It ...
( Category: New Testament April 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-04-17 | Author:Colin G. Kruse [Kruse, Colin G.]

v. Before Abraham was I am (8:48–59) 48. The evangelist now introduces other opponents. In 8:31–47 Jesus addressed the ‘believers’ who by their response to his teaching showed they did ...
( Category: New Testament April 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-11-09 | Author:Ralph P. Martin [Martin, Ralph P.]

Later discussion has suggested a modification of this arrangement, but at the cost of removing certain phrases from the text in the interest of metrical harmony. Jeremias’ reconstruction emphasizes the ...
( Category: New Testament April 4,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2015-10-30 | Author:Greg Gilbert

The biblical authors might have had a nonhistorical purpose in writing. Perhaps they, like H. G. Wells, were just writing a novel of sorts, which they knew wasn’t true and ...
( Category: Bible Study April 4,2017 )