Mounce on Matthew 2:8, May, and Might

Byhenry January 6, 2012

A good discussion, especially of the aorist adverbial participle followed by an imperative.

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The Value (or not) of the Spiritual Warfare Metaphor

Byhenry January 22, 2011

My daily lectionary readings for the day included both Ephesians 6:10-24 and Mark 5:1-20. (I get my readings from The Voice.) It’s an interesting combination, because the Ephesians passage is the famous one about the armor of God and thus features in just about any discussion of spiritual warfare, while the passage in Mark, regarding…

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Psalm 119:48 – Meditating

Byhenry January 10, 2025January 9, 2025

And I lift up my hands to your commands which I love,and I will meditate on your statutes. I haven’t been entirely consistent in how I translate the first word of each couplet in this section, but they begin with the Hebrew letter vav (or waw as is sometimes taught in classical Hebrew). This would…

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Review: Grace & Truth Study Bible

Byhenry September 17, 2021

This review is of a Bible I received as a #BibleGatewayPartner. When I set out to review a Bible, I find it difficult to determine precisely what I should discuss. There is the translation it is based on, the nature and extent of the notes, the theological positions that drive those notes, and elements of…

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Numbers 30-31, Biblical Cultural Shock, and the Process of Hermeneutics

Byhenry June 17, 2016

Since I wrote recently about biblical culture shock, and have also commented from time to time on our impatience with the process in politics, it was interesting for me to come to Numbers 30 and 31 in my evening reading. [ncs_ad pid=’9780842334280′ adtype=’aer.io’ float=’left’]Numbers 30 is a sort of kinder, gentler sort of culture shock….

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Helping One Another Change

Byhenry December 13, 2014

I just extracted a note from Dave Black’s blog to The Jesus Paradigm. (That site supports his book by the same name as well as a few others that don’t have their own domain name.) In it Dave talks about admonishing, encouraging, and upholding. You’ll have to go read the post to find out what…

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Bob MacDonald on Psalm 119

Byhenry January 14, 2010

Psalm 119 is one of my favorite (at least top 10) passages in the Bible, especially since I had to memorize it (in the KJV) back when I was about 12 years old. Bob MacDonald is writing a series on it in Hebrew that is well worthwhile following. Start with his first post.