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101. Paul's Ministry in Thessalonica

1 Thessalonians 2:1-16

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... on the assumption that they reflect the fall of Jerusalem in A.D. 70 (for the latter, cf. 2:16c especially) the last four verses have been regarded as an interpolation by some interpreters. The argument for a post-70 date for these verses is supported, some argue, by their similarity of theme and language to passages in the Synoptic Gospels, especially Matthew 23:29–36. But this similarity can be as easily accounted for by supposing that Paul and the synoptics drew on a common tradition. Nothing in verse ...

102. Living to Please God

1 Thessalonians 4:1-12

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David J. Williams

... McGehee offers a critique of both Yarbrough and Collins in “A Rejoiner to Two Recent Studies Dealing with 1 Thess. 4:4,” CBQ 51 (1989) pp. 82–89. In this article McGehee draws attention especially to the social setting of the letter, which provides further support for the position that this is not an instruction as to how a man should acquire a wife, but a general instruction to both men and women as to how they should conduct themselves sexually. McGehee points out that at the society level to which ...

103. Instructions on Worship

1 Timothy 2:1-15

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Gordon D. Fee

... trouble or distress (which hardly fits the point of view of 2 Tim. 1:8 and 3:12) but that they should live in such a way that “no one will speak evil of the name of God and of our teaching” (6:1). This understanding is supported by two other factors: First, in 1 Thessalonians 4:11–12 Paul uses identical language (“lead a quiet life”) for the selfsame reason (to “win the respect of outsiders”), where “busybodies” are disrupting things (cf. 2 Thess. 3:11 with 1 Tim. 5:13); and second, the ...

104. The Fall of Jericho

Joshua 5:13--6:27

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J. Gordon Harris

... the suspense by repeating instructions about devoting those living in the city except Rahab and her family. The herem instructions play two roles in the narrative. First, the instructions make clear what booty the tribes must devote to destruction to preserve the support of their God. This will be very important when Achan is confronted later. Second, the sparing of Rahab is an exception to the rules of herem written in Deuteronomy, and the rationale for that exception needs to be clear. The troops must ...

105. The Genealogy of David

Ruth 4:13-22

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Michael S. Moore

... of far more value to Israel than seven of its finest sons. 4:16–17a Then Naomi took the child, laid him in her lap and cared for him. After Obed’s birth, Naomi’s new role becomes that of “nurse” (’omenet, “supporter,” from ’aman, “to support”). And they named him Obed. Several theories have been advanced to explain this name. Josephus (Antiquities of the Jews 5.9.4) tries to define it by focusing on the Hebrew verb ’abad (“to serve”), from which Obed (’obed) is probably derived ...

106. The Decree of Darius

Ezra 6:1-12

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Leslie C. Allen

... the rest a group of former exiles who regarded themselves as a faithful minority. Verse 22 contains a last echo of the opening of chapter 1. There God inspired Cyrus to launch the first mission. Here Darius, it is claimed, had been supernaturally led to support its completion. The same providential hand is seen to have been at work, bending imperial power to the divine will. All was of God. This conviction made the festival held in the temple precincts a very special one. Additional Notes 6:1–2 The NIV ...

107. Cain and Abel

Genesis 4:1-26

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John E. Hartley

... a curse that drove him from the ground that had received his brother’s blood. This curse was different from the punishments of the first human pair. God made an aspect of Adam and Eve’s livelihood harder, but he caused Cain to be alienated from the support of the land, thus consigning him to become a restless wanderer. This curse struck at Cain’s self-identity; banishment from the soil was almost as harsh as taking his life. 4:13–14 In contrast to Adam and Eve, who did not speak out against their ...

108. Clean and Unclean Foods

Deuteronomy 14:1-21

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Christopher J. H. Wright

... ; 16:11, 14). This verse may well be an indicator that Deuteronomy’s tithe law assumed the use of the tithe to support the Levites and priests serving at the sanctuary and ensures that local Levites should not be excluded from proper provision. The form ... are kept entirely separate. 14:22–29 Leviticus 27:30–33 and Num. 18:21–29 present a tithe that is for the support of the sanctuary and its personnel—priests and Levites, whereas Deut. describes the tithe as a family meal at the sanctuary (vv. 23– ...

109. Epilogue to the Law of the Temple: River, Land, City

Ezekiel 47:1-12, Ezekiel 47:13-23, Ezekiel 48:1-29, Ezekiel 48:30-35

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Steven Tuell

... could suggest that an original unit, verses 1–8, was expanded in verses 9–12 by a series of progressively later additions (Zimmerli, Ezekiel 2, pp. 513–14). The matter-of-fact phrasing of the temple description in chapters 40–42 may seem to support this analysis. However, the various details found here are not secondary expansions. They appear elsewhere in Scripture and in the literature of the ancient Near East as aspects of a common motif: the river as the symbol of divine presence in the temple ...

110. The Gospel of God in Christ through Paul

Romans 1:1-17

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C. Marvin Pate

... the day: the forensic view and the transformative view.4The forensic view understands the righteousness of God to be God’s legal declaration that the believer in Jesus is righteous before God; that is, God’s righteousness is imputed to the sinner’s standing before God. The primary support for such a perspective is found in Paul’s emphasis in Romans on faith as the sole means of acquiring God’s righteousness (cf. 1:17; 3:21–22; 4:3, 5–6, 9, 11, 13, 22; 9:30–31; 10:3, 4, 6, 10; see also Gal ...

111. “Weak and Strong” Should Get Along

Romans 14:1--15:13

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C. Marvin Pate

... ” were mainly Jewish Christians who refrained from certain kinds of food and observed certain days out of continuing loyalty to the Mosaic law. Moo, following C. E. B. Cranfield,5opts for the sixth view, with which I agree. Moo adduces four pieces of evidence in support of that contention. First, the dispute between the weak in faith and the strong (14:1–15:13) corresponds to the differences between Jews and Gentiles (see Rom. 1:18–4:22; 9–11; 15:14–33). Second, a Jewish origin of the position of ...

112. Failure to Enter the Land

Num 13:1–14:9

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Joe M. Sprinkle

... , the Anakites, the ten scouts had so feared (cf. Josh. 14:6–15). Moses and Aaron (v. 26), along with Aaron’s sons, are also (for now) exempt from this exclusion from entering the land, for no Levite had been among the unfaithful scouts, and Aaron has supported Moses, Joshua, and Caleb against the mob (14:5–6). Moses and Aaron are later excluded from entering the land (see Num. 20:12, 24). Aaron’s son Eleazar, presumably over the age of twenty at this time, is allowed to enter the land (Josh. 24:33 ...

113. David’s Mighty Men

2 Samuel 21:15-22

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Robert B. Chisholm Jr.

... him; but in the context of war with the Philistines, his services were welcome! The verb used here (‘azar) means to provide aid or support, especially to one who is in a challenging or even precarious position (see, e.g., its use in Josh. 10:6; 1 Sam. 7: ... from the accounts of David’s mighty men: When the Lord gives his chosen servants a task to do, he provides support to aid them in their endeavors. As the Lord’s chosen king, David was responsible for national security. In the hostile environment ...

114. The Disorderly

2 Thessalonians 3:6-15

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Gary M. Burge

... . 2:3). Though the apostles labored hard (Acts 18:1–5; 1 Thess. 2:9) and paid for their own food, they also received support from the Philippian congregation (Phil. 4:15–16). Paul taught that payment for Christian ministry was acceptable (1 Cor. 9:7–14; 1 Tim. ... effective means of social control. The church bears a responsibility to guide the conduct of its members as the group supports the common Christian virtues and helps each to avoid vice. The situation here is not exactly parallel to 1 Corinthians ...

115. Jesus Morality

Matthew 10:40-42

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Tom Garrison

... of the budget committee and the trustees, and to my surprise the meeting was almost over and no one had mentioned cutting the support to the clinic. I was waiting for an "Amen" and I could go home happy. Just as we were getting ready to leave one ... . When the mother closed the door, the little girl looked at all of us and without a word went to the man who was against supporting the clinic. She climbed up into his lap and snuggled in for a nap. He held the little girl until the mother returned and as the ...

116. Ingrafted Branches

Romans 11:11-24

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James R. Edwards

... the work of salvation already begun in Abraham (ch. 4; 11:28). For my part, I am inclined to see the root as a reference to the history of salvation extending from Abraham to Christ, into which both Gentiles and Jews must be engrafted. This is supported by the argument of chapter 4, where Abraham is seen as the bearer of the promise of salvation in Jesus Christ, a promise which can be received only by faith. It is not physical descent from Abraham, therefore, but participation in the covenant of faith which ...

117. The Fellowship Offering

Leviticus 3:1-17

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W. H. Bellinger, Jr.

... became a public sacrifice which included the blood rite and the burning of the fat (R. Rendtorff, Studien zur Geschichte des Opfers im Alten Israel [WMANT; Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener, 1967], pp. 119–68). Rendtorff’s construction is interesting, and he marshals considerable support for it, but finally it is too hypothetical (Hartley, Leviticus, pp. 37–39; Milgrom, Leviticus 1–16, pp. 204, 217–21). A simpler solution is to take the first term as the generic one for sacrifice and the second as a ...

118. David Returns to Jerusalem

2 Samuel 19:9-43

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Mary J. Evans

... negative effects on a long-term basis by encouraging the rivalry to simmer. But David’s master stroke for reuniting the kingdom was to appoint Amasa, Absalom’s commander, as commander of the whole Israelite army. This made a statement that David recognized that support for Absalom might have come from a genuine desire to benefit the country and therefore was not to be seen as unforgivable betrayal. Amasa’s appointment also served as a rebuke to Joab, though whether this was for his part in Absalom’s ...

119. Eliphaz

Job 4:1-5:27

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Gerald H. Wilson

... mts, “make strong/brave”) those in need. 4:5–6 When Eliphaz turns his attention to Job’s turmoil he reveals a sharper edge beneath this apparent commendation. Job’s wisdom is of no avail in his own suffering. He is far from “strengthened,” “supported,” or encouraged. Instead, he is discouraged and dismayed. Eliphaz turns Job’s anxieties into the basis for a subtle assault on his piety (yirʾatka, “your fear,” refers to the foundational “fear of God” affirmed of Job in 1:1, 8; 2:3 ...

120. Job's Second Reply to Eliphaz

Job 16:1-17:16

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Gerald H. Wilson

... of the second half of the verse would be: “Who (else) will allow (my hand) to be shaken?” (Both Hartley, Job, p. 266, and Clines, Job 1–20, p. 163, trace this suggestion back to Gordis.) Job is feeling completely isolated without any human support and he realizes that he can only find the vindication he desires with God—even though that may seem utterly impossible under the circumstances. God has closed to understanding the minds of Job’s human detractors. Although the vocabulary is different, the ...

121. A Pilgrim’s Prayer to Fulfill Vows at God’s House

Psalm 61:1-8

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Craig C. Broyles

... act as the king’s bodyguards (vv. 6–7) is not a pious afterthought but a prayer essential to safe escort to the temple (v. 8). Note that the connective “then” closely ties the speaker’s fulfilling his vows to the king’s welfare. Supporting this petition and the whole psalm is a vow (v. 8), this one emphasizing that the speaker will fulfill the earlier vows that Yahweh heard (mentioned in v. 5). Particularly noteworthy in the psalm’s theology is the understanding or insight that God’s ...

122. Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream

Daniel 2:1-23

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William Nelson

... it to him. Perhaps he remembered fragments of it that would allow him to confirm the authenticity of the advisers’ words if they got those elements right. If he could recollect the dream, then he is not troubled to know the dream, but only its interpretation, which supports the NIV’s reading above. Indeed, it seems from verse 9, where he accuses them of lying, that he does know the dream and is merely testing them. It would be easy for them to make up an interpretation if he recounts the dream, but if ...

123. The Writing on the Wall

Daniel 5:1-31

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William Nelson

... : Eerdmans, 1959], p. 8), but this will not work. Gobryas was a governor of Babylon but never king; nor was he called Darius, as far as we know (Collins, Daniel, p. 31). Others suggest that Darius is an alternate name for Cyrus, but that cannot be supported from history either. They equate the two by rendering 6:28 as “the reign of Darius, even the reign of Cyrus the Persian” (Baldwin, Daniel, pp. 26, 132, following D. J. Wiseman; see the NIV footnote to 6:28). In fact the writer of Daniel understood ...

124. Whose Son is the Christ?

Mark 12:35-40

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Larry W. Hurtado

... (11:17). Near the close of the section, the scribes are criticized for their pride and concern for making money. In Jesus’ time, the scribes appear to have been forbidden to ask for pay for their expertise in the law and had to support themselves or be supported through the generosity of others. Their great learning obtained for them great respect among the Jews, and as all too often is the case when religious leaders are given such deference, some scribes were not above enjoying their place far too much ...

125. Tithes

Deuteronomy 14:22-29

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Christopher J. H. Wright

... :13–15), portrays giving as a matter of responsive obedience (9:13), and breathes an ethos of joy, thanksgiving, and continued blessing (9:6–14). Additional Notes 14:22–29 Leviticus 27:30–33 and Num. 18:21–29 present a tithe that is for the support of the sanctuary and its personnel—priests and Levites, whereas Deut. describes the tithe as a family meal at the sanctuary (vv. 23–26) and (in the third year) the basis of a food storage scheme for welfare distribution to the needy (vv. 28f.), with ...

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