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1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... dead will together meet the Lord in the air. The Greek (and, indeed NIV) presents this as the purpose (eis apantēsin, “for meeting”) of their being caught up, while the imagery is drawn from the practice of the day. Moulton and Milligan observe that “the ... inaugurate “the age to come,” the age of his kingdom (rule) in the final and fullest sense of that term. The day of the Lord would see the salvation of the just and the judgment of the unjust. It would be a day of high drama, which is often ...

2. False Teachers and Their Destruction

2 Peter 2:1-22

Understanding Series

Norman Hillyer

... godly caught up in these situations were kept safe by God—Noah (v. 5) and Lot (v. 7)—and so concludes on the reassuring note that “the Lord knows how to rescue godly men” (v. 9). This is a point absent from the parallel passage in Jude 5–7, but a theme which recurs in ... period. In 3:11 Peter uses a present participle lyomenōn (lit. being dissolved) in a future sense; see J. H. Moulton & N. Turner, A Grammar of New Testament Greek (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1963), vol. 3, pp. 86–87. 2:10a Those ...

3. The Man of Lawlessness

2 Thessalonians 2:1-12

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... . Rom. 8:38; 1 Cor. 3:22; 7:26; Gal. 1:4; Heb. 9:9, and see Moulton-Milligan). The combination in the Greek of the two conjunctions hōs and hoti, where either would have served on its own, “may here impart a subjective flavor to the clause thus introduced” (Bruce); as we would say, “… that the day of the Lord has allegedly come,” the writer wishing to dissociate himself from the report. Clearly, the Lord had not returned visibly in the manner anticipated in 1 Thessalonians 4:16f., but his coming ...

4. Living to Please God

1 Thessalonians 4:1-12

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... we have suggested, that it denotes agency: Jesus acts for God in the transmission. Or it may mean something like “in the name of the Lord Jesus.” Cf. NIV by the authority of.… In any case, the instructions come from the highest authority and must, therefore, be obeyed (for the ... to mean “to possess.” In classical usage, this sense is restricted to the perfect and pluperfect tenses, but Moulton-Milligan cite evidence that this restriction no longer applied in NT Greek. Here Paul uses the verb in the ...

5. The Lord's Prayer: "Lead Us Not Into Temptation"

Matthew 6:5-15

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David E. Leininger

... read of the Rev. Martin Perelra of the Roman Catholic Our Lady of the Airways parish in Moulton, Ontario. It seems he was downtown bringing Communion to a sick member but was unable to find ... something exactly opposite. If you were to ask me how much longer this sermon would last, I might say "not long," and inwardly you might whisper a little "Praise the Lord." (You might even whisper it outwardly. At any rate...) You would know what I meant. We use the litotes device all the time. This might give us a clue ...

6. Peter’s Miraculous Escape from Prison

Acts 12:1-19a

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... make himself heard over the hubbub of their excitement (see disc. on 13:16 for the motion with the hand), he told them how the Lord had delivered him and asked that this news be passed on to James and the brothers (v. 17). This James is the brother of Jesus, ... Compare also Gen. 48:16; Dan. 3:28; 6:22; Tobit 5:4; Heb. 1:14; and Midrash Rabbah on Eccles. 4:4. J. H. Moulton believes that the idea derives from Zoroastrianism (“Zoroastrianism,” HDB vol. 4, p. 991). 12:17 James: See disc. on 1:14 and note ...

7. Warning Against False Teachers of the Law

1 Timothy 1:1-11

Understanding Series

Gordon D. Fee

... similar to what he uses here, and in that case the emphasis on his being Paul’s “dear and faithful son in the Lord” was that by watching “son” Timothy’s example, his Corinthian “children” would know how to behave like their “father:” Thus the church ... opening sentence in Paul’s Greek is ungrammatical, although it might be merely elliptical (some examples are given in Moulton-Milligan, p. 314). It begins, “Even as,” a construction that needs a “so now” to complete it. Paul intended ...

8. By Faith

Hebrews 11:1-40

Understanding Series

Donald A. Hagner

... the use of the word in contemporaneous secular papyri, where it means “title-deed” or “guarantee” (thus J. H. Moulton and G. Milligan, The Vocabulary of the Greek Testament [London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1930]). See G. Harder, NIDNTT, vol. ... in several other places in the NT (e.g., Phil. 3:20: “Our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ”; cf. 1 Pet. 1:1, 17; 2:11). An argument similar to that of the present passage is found in Hebrews 3:7–4 ...

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