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Daniel 10:1--11:1

Understanding Series

William Nelson

... two other books are described in Daniel: the book of life (Dan. 12:1; see also Exod. 32:32–33; Ps. 69:28; Luke 10:20; Phil. 4:3; Rev. 3:5; 13:8; 17:8; 20:12, 15; 21:27), containing the names of those who belong to God, and the ... 10. Therefore, it is more natural to understand this heavenly being to be the one who appears in vv. 5–6 (Driver, Daniel, p. 156; Hartman and Di Lella, Daniel, p. 281). 10:12 The Hebrew idiom natatta ʾet-libbeka, you set your mind, is literally, “you gave your heart.” The ...

2. The End Times

Daniel 12:1-13

Understanding Series

William Nelson

... record those destined for life instead of death, meaning those who will survive the persecution. The belief in a book of life continues in the NT (Phil. 4:3; Rev. 3:5; 13:8; 17:8; 20:12, 15). This book is different from two other types of documents the seer speaking with ... the renegade Jews being left in the grave to be treated with “shame and everlasting contempt” by the survivors (e.g., Hartman and Di Lella, Daniel, p. 297; Lacocque, Daniel, pp. 243–44). An argument for this view is the use of the ...

3. Christ the Wisdom and Power of God

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

Understanding Series

Marion L. Soards

... . Soards, “Paul,” in Mercer Dictionary of the Bible (ed. W. E. Mills; Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1990), pp. 657–62. 2:3 L. Hartman (“Some remarks on 1 Cor. 2:1–5,” SEÅ 39 [1974], pp. 109–20) suggests that an intertextual echo occurs in this verse as ... Exod. 15:15; Ps. 2:11; 55:5; Jdt. 15:2; 2 Esd. 15:33; 4 Macc. 4:10; cf. 2 Cor. 7:15; Eph. 6:5; Phil. 2:12. Fee (Epistle, pp. 92–93) argues for translating egenomēn as “was with” by pointing to the occurrence of the same verb in 16: ...

4. Loving Like God Loves

Matthew 5:43-48

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Phil Thrailkill

Paul Stanley is Vice-President of the Navigators, a worldwide para-church ministry to students and the military. In 1967 he was a company commander in Vietnam; it was there that he took a risk and learned the meaning of Jesus’ words: “On one occasion after the enemy had withdrawn, Stanley came upon several soldiers surrounding a wounded Viet Cong. Shot through the lower leg, he was hostile, frightened, helpless. He threw mud and kicked with his one good leg when anyone came near. When Paul joined the ...

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