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Luke 8:26-39

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Leonard Sweet

... in Thomas L. Martin, Jr., Malice in Blunderland [New York: McGraw-Hill, 1973], 23.) We in the church have a version of Murphy's Law. It goes like this: "No good deed goes unpunished." Kind and Punishment go together. If you don't believe me ... would get out, he was able to go back to work. He realized that he would never produce the whole tree, the whole glory of God. -Tim Keller, "Why We Need Artists," in It Was Good Making Art to the Glory of God, ed. Ned Bustard (Baltimore, MD: Square Halo Books, 2000), 87 ...

2. Where Is Your Home?

2 Corinthians 5:6-10

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King Duncan

... volume, THE OFFICIAL RULES AT HOME. Among others he discusses these three immutable Laws--Laws which he says are corollaries of Murphy's famous Law: "If anything can go wrong, it will. If anything can't go wrong, it will anyway." The first ... moment it takes me to scan them I receive a message in the cluttered back rooms of my brain. "The pictures say, Don't forget, Tim, THIS is where you checked in (the hospital), THIS is where you're checking out (the cemetery), and THESE FOUR PEOPLE in the middle are ...

3. The Choosing of the Seven

Acts 6:1-7

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... in the early church, see James 1:27 (cf. Deut. 14:29; 24:19; 26:12; Isa. 1:17; Zech. 7:10). In time, an order of widows developed (1 Tim. 5:3–16; Ignatius, Smyrnaeans 13.1; Polycarp, Philippians 4.3), but neither here nor in 9:39 is there any reason to think that it had already made a ... was enshrined in a law that in many respects proved much less attractive (Rackham, p. 240; see also J. Murphy-O’Connor, St. Paul’s Corinth, p. 80). Consequently, among those who were drawn to Judaism there were varying ...

4. In Corinth

Acts 18:1-17

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... him and he was no longer master of when he would preach but the servant of a message that would be preached “in season and out” (2 Tim. 4:2). So he was testifying to the Jews. Does this mark a change of method from discussion to a more dogmatic approach? (See disc. on 2:40 ... is certainly no compelling reason to doubt Luke’s accuracy on this point. (For a different opinion, see J. Murphy-O’Connor, St. Paul’s Corinth, pp. 129ff.) As for the circumstances that gave rise to the edict, Suetonius ...

5. Accusations

2 Corinthians 1:12--2:4, 2 Corinthians 2:5-11

Understanding Series

James M. Scott

... his ways (cf., e.g., Rom. 16:20; 1 Cor. 5:5; 7:5; 2 Cor. 11:14; 12:7; 1 Thess. 2:18; also 2 Thess. 2:9; 1 Tim. 1:20; 5:15) stems not merely from his acquaintance with the Jewish tradition (cf. 2 Cor. 11:14 with Apoc. Mos. 17:1), but also from personal encounters ... tradition explains the survival of Korah’s sons by claiming that they repented of their sin (cf. Frederick J. Murphy, “Korah’s Rebellion in Pseudo-Philo 16,” in Of Scribes and Scrolls: Studies on the Hebrew Bible, Intertestamental Judaism ...

6. Thanksgiving

1 Corinthians 1:1-9

Understanding Series

Marion L. Soards

... as co-authors with Paul include Sosthenes (1 Cor.), Timothy (2 Cor., Phil., 1 Thess., Phlm.), and Silvanus (1 Thess.). In the six epistles that are disputed (Eph., Col., 2 Thess., 1 Tim., 2 Tim., and Titus), Col. and 2 Thess. mention co-authors: Timothy (Col., 2 Thess.) and Silvanus (2 Thess.). J. Murphy-O’Connor (“Co-Authorship in the Corinthian Correspondence,” RB 100 [1993], pp. 562–79) studies the role of the co-authors with Paul and recognizes different levels of involvement from one letter ...

7. The Return to Antioch in Syria

Acts 14:21-28

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... delegate of his church (20:4). Derbe is the only town of those we know they visited in Galatia in which they met with no persecution (cf. 2 Tim. 3:11). Perhaps winter was coming on, making conditions too difficult for the Jews to pursue them. From here it would have been possible for Paul and ... ; 20:8) and for the possible social and theological results, see J. Murphy-O’Connor, St. Paul’s Corinth, pp. 153ff.; also R. Banks, Paul’s Idea of Community, pp. 45ff., for the makeup of these house meetings.

8. The Resurrection of the Dead

1 Corinthians 15:12-34

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Marion L. Soards

... or they denied a future resurrection and claimed a fully realized this-worldly resurrection (as in 2 Thess. 2:1–2; 2 Tim. 2:17–18). Option one makes the plainest sense of the words, but there is no indication in general that the Corinthians ... Christians were a facet of the local preoccupation with the underworld. For an idiosyncratic but influential reading of this verse, see J. Murphy-O’Connor (“ ‘Baptized for the Dead’ [1 Cor. 15:29]: A Corinthian Slogan?” RB 88 [1981], pp. 532–43), who takes ...

9. Forgiveness for the Sinner

2 Corinthians 2:5-11

Understanding Series

James M. Scott

10. Warning Against Adultery

Proverbs 6:20-35

Understanding Series

Roland E. Murphy

6:20–35 This section is introduced in the NIV by the heading, “warning against adultery.” Verse 20 continues the admonitions of chapter 5 with an opening reminiscent of 1:8. The command in verse 21 is found with variations in 1:9; 3:3, 22. The forever of the NIV is better rendered “continually.” In verse 22, the NIV glosses over the third feminine singular, “she will guide you,” by assuming that commands and teaching are understood as a collective. Another possibility is that personified wisdom is assumed ...

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