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1. "A peaceful mind gives life to the body, but jealousy rots the bones.” - Proverbs 14:30. 2. “Wherever there is jealousy and selfish ambition, there is disorder and everything that is evil.”
J. B. Phillips offers the reading "The light still shines in the darkness and the darkness has never put it out." [5] The Greek word, "κατέλαβεν (katelaben)", is an example of polysemy and can be equally translated as either "understand", "overtake" or "overcome" [6].
This is the queen of Saba, of whom we read in the book of Kings and Chronicles, who leaving her nation and kingdom came through so many difficulties to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and brought him many gifts. Also in these instances of Nineveh and the queen of Saba, the faith of the Gentiles is significantly set above that of Israel." [3]
book chapter:verse 1 –verse 2 for a range of verses (John 3:16–17); book chapter:verse 1,verse 2 for multiple disjoint verses (John 6:14, 44). The range delimiter is an en-dash, and there are no spaces on either side of it. [3] This format is the one accepted by the Chicago Manual of Style to cite scriptural standard works.
Erasmus expressed the idea in his Annotations to the New Testament in the early 1500s: "And whenever the Fathers report that there is a variant reading, that one always appears to me to be more esteemed (by them is the one) which at first glance seems the more absurd-since it is reasonable that a reader who is either not very learned or not very attentive was offended by the specter of ...
Allegorical interpretation of the Bible is an interpretive method that assumes that the Bible has various levels of meaning and tends to focus on the spiritual sense, which includes the allegorical sense, the moral (or tropological) sense, and the anagogical sense, as opposed to the literal sense.
Matthew 5:23 and Matthew 5:24 are a pair of closely related verses in the fifth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament. They are part of the Sermon on the Mount. Jesus has just announced that anger leads to murder, and anger is just as bad as murder itself. And that whosoever is angry with his brother shall be in danger of the ...
The Bible [a] is a collection of religious texts and scriptures that are held to be sacred in Christianity, and partly in Judaism, Samaritanism, Islam, the Baháʼí Faith, and other Abrahamic religions. The Bible is an anthology (a compilation of texts of a variety of forms) originally written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Koine Greek. The texts ...