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While reading the Bible I have noticed The Holy Spirit seems to be referred to by different names. Grammatically speaking and contextually speaking are these various words referring to The Same Spirit?
Acts 16:7
And when they came to the b…
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εἰς τὸ τέλος τοῖς ἀλλοιωθησομένοις ἔτι εἰς στηλογραφίαν τῷ Δαυιδ εἰς διδαχήν Psalm 59:1 LXX
What meaning did the Septuagint translator want to convey to readers at the time by using the word teaching?
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αλλ ημιν εις θεος ο πατηρ εξ ου τα παντα και ημεις εις αυτον και εις κυριος ιησους χριστος δι ου τα παντα και ημεις δι αυτου [TR – undisputed – Stephanus, Beza, Elzevir and Scrivener : all identical]
‘One’ is applied to two persons.
Firs…
“I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in,”
Romans 11:25 NIV
Does t…
The passage starts off with drawing a distinction between the law
“For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.”
Romans 8:2 ESV
And it appears the law, through Christ, if…
But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things
that he did, and the children crying out in the temple, “Hosanna to
the son of David!” they were indignant, and they said to him, “Do you
hear what these are sayi…
Revelation 19:1 YLT
And after these things I heard a great voice of a great multitude in the heaven, saying, ‘Alleluia! the salvation, and the glory, and the honour, and the power, is to the Lord our God;
Matthew 6:16 YLT
And mayest Thou n…
Before Jesus ascended into heaven, he instructed his disciples to ‘Tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem until ye be endued with power from on high’ (Luke 24:49; Acts 1:4 KJV). Drawing from these words, the practice of having “tarrying” service…
Though prayer doesn’t change God’s mind or God’s purposes, prayer does change something- It changes us. Chuck Smith
Luke 14:13
But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled (ἀναπήρος), the lame (χωλός), the blind…
The word ἀναπήρος is a unique word in the NT (it is only used by Luke, and only twice by him in this passage). I have not been…
Most translations of Matthew 28:19 begin with:
“Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them …
What "of" means here is ambiguous:
All people from all nations should be baptized. (Proselytize)
A few peopl…
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