Leon Morris makes an interesting note on φιλόστοργοι (philostorgoi—a combination of φίλος [philos] and στοργή [storge]) in Romans 12:10: KJV has “Be kindly affectioned”, where “kindly” is used in its original sense, “referring to kin.” —The Epistle to the Romans,...
Exegesis
Incidentally…
While I was doing some research for a high school Bible lesson on gender roles, I ran across this article at the Council for Biblical Equality. The article includes this: Theologian Wayne Grudem wants us to believe that the Greek word kephale (translated into English...
Humpty Dumpty on Ἀγάπη
Humpty Dumpty took the book and looked at it carefully. “That seems to be done right—” he began. “You're holding it upside down!” Alice interrupted. “To be sure I was!” Humpty Dumpty said gaily as she turned it round for him. “I thought it looked a little queer. As I...
The Love Chapter
You could be the world’s foremost orator, but if you aren’t motivated by love, you’re like a car alarm going off in a parking lot. You could give out God’s Word powerfully, know truth no one else does, and move mountains with your faith—but if you aren’t driven by...
God’s Will
Kevin DeYoung argues in the best-titled book of 2009 that God has a sovereign will and a moral will, but He does not have what is typically thought of as an individual will of direction. He has an individual will only in the sense of those two other wills: He has in...
Carson on the Parables
Pregnant wives sometimes simply cannot make it to church, so the last time we missed a Sunday sermon we listened to D. A. Carson on the purpose of Jesus’ parables. Carson was, as always, biblically responsible and helpful. He said that Jesus had many reasons for...
Righteousness and True Healthiness
James Barr in the iconoclastic The Semantics of Biblical Language: A regular church-goer is likely sooner or later to hear an interpretation of the word “holy,” which is of course frequent in the English Bible, as “basically” or “originally” or “properly” meaning...
Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament
Beale and Carson explain what they will not cover in their preface to the Commentary on the New Testament use of the Old Testament: We have not summarized the extraordinarily complex developments in the field of typology since Leonhard Goppelt wrote his 1939 book...
BibleWorks Pop Quiz
Want to keep your BibleWorks skills sharp? I formulated the following pop-quiz questions for my BibleWorks seminar a few weeks ago: Find all ESV occurrences in Paul of words beginning in, but not the word in. How many Greek OT verses are there with the forms κυριος...
Encyclopedia Judaica Free Online
The Encyclopedia Judaica is a massive, expensive, respected reference work. Immediately upon looking up a word in the new Internet edition, I recognized the contributor who wrote the article: Yigael Yadin, famous Israeli leader and archaeologist. The entire work has...
Imperatives in the Bible
Just because something is an imperative in Scripture doesn’t mean it’s a command to you and me. Always read the context. Let everyone beware of his neighbor, and put no trust in any brother, for every brother is a deceiver, and every neighbor goes about as a...
Logos 4
Logos has put out a new version of their software, and they’ve added two new packages to their line-up. I’m hoping that the new engine will be faster and slicker than the old. It appears from the promo video that this is so! But my advice to potential buyers comes in...