... of the people around you--in your family, in your community, those with whom you work. Success is standing before the Lord at the end of life and hearing him say, “Well done, thou good and faithful servant.” Some of you are undoubtedly familiar with a 2003 Tim Burton motion picture, Big Fish. It’s a strange film about a man who told tall tales--fish tales. His son William wants to know what his father was really like, but he finds it difficult to separate fact from fiction, the tales he told from the ...
... : J. H. Kok, 1964); G. R. Beasley-Murray, “The Second Chapter of Colossians,” RevExp 70 (1973), pp. 469–79; E. Burton, “The Elements of the Universe,” in his Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians (Edinburgh: T. & T. ... Apparently this heresy had a long list of foods that were religiously unacceptable, that is, unclean (cf. 1 Cor. 8:1; 1 Tim. 4:3). There does not appear to be any deliberate gradation in this list, although “to handle” (haptō) can imply taking hold ...
... ruthlessness with which he “persecuted the church of God and tried to destroy it.” If in 1 Corinthians 15:9 (cf. 1 Tim. 1:13, 14) his persecution of the church, viewed from a later Christian perspective, was the sin of all sins, rendering him ... … heurethō. For the use of the passive of heuriskein as a surrogate for the verb “to be” or “to become” cf. 2:7. See also E. D. Burton, The Epistle to the Galatians, p. 125 (in a note on Gal. 2:17). If it be asked at what time Paul hopes to be found in ...
