Sublime

General to specific and specific to general – Find the general statements that are followed by specific examples or applications of the general. Also find specific statements that are summarized by a general one. Conditional clauses – A clause can present the condition by which some action or consequence will result. Often such statements use an “i

Step 1: Grasp the text in their town. What did the text mean to the original audience? Step 2: Measure the width of the river to cross. What are the differences between the biblical audience and us? Step 3: Cross the principlizing bridge. What is the theological principle in this text? Step 4: Consult the biblical map. How does this theological pri

2. Choose a translation that is based on the standard Hebrew and Greek text. As

The simple but powerful structure of the Discourse on the Hill can therefore be represented as follows: Background assumption: life in the kingdom through reliance upon Jesus (Matt. 4:17–25; chapters 1 through 3 of this book are devoted to this topic). It is ordinary people who are the light and salt of the world as they live the blessed life in th

Mark 13 and its parallels drew together the strands of previous Temple-warnings, and that it solemnly predicted, in language drawn not least from Jeremiah and Daniel, that the Temple would be destroyed by foreign armies, and that this event should be seen as the outpouring of YHWH’s wrath upon his recalcitrant people. The last state of the house wo

anytime the word Negeb appears, it refers to the desert.

The expectation of the restored land has become focused on restored human beings. Jesus offered people ‘inheritance’, and greater possessions than they would have abandoned; but he regularly construed this in terms of human lives and human communities that were being renewed and restored through the coming of the kingdom.233 The pearl of great pric