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J. B. Phillips offers the reading "The light still shines in the darkness and the darkness has never put it out." [5] The Greek word, "κατέλαβεν (katelaben)", is an example of polysemy and can be equally translated as either "understand", "overtake" or "overcome" [6].
Biblical authority refers to the notion that the Bible is authoritative and useful in guiding matters of Christian practice because it represents the word of God. [4] The nature of biblical authority is that it involves critique of the Bible and sources of biblical literature in order to determine the accuracy and authority of its information in regards to communicating the word of God. [5]
In the King James Version of the Bible, the text reads: The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here. The New International Version translates the passage as:
"May God bless the reading of His Word." [3] "Here endeth the first/second lesson." [2] The congregation responds with "Thanks be to God." [2] If the reading is from one of the Epistles in the Bible, lectors may conclude it with: [2] "Here endeth the Epistle." [2] If the reading is from one of the Gospels in the Bible, lectors may conclude it with:
With the motto Ora et labora ("Pray and work"), daily life in a Benedictine monastery consisted of three elements: liturgical prayer, manual labor and Lectio Divina, a quiet prayerful reading of the Bible. [15] This slow and thoughtful reading of Scripture, and the ensuing pondering of its meaning, was their meditation.
Allegorical interpretation of the Bible is an interpretive method that assumes that the Bible has various levels of meaning and tends to focus on the spiritual sense, which includes the allegorical sense, the moral (or tropological) sense, and the anagogical sense, as opposed to the literal sense.
Biblical studies is the academic application of a set of diverse disciplines to the study of the Bible, with Bible referring to the books of the canonical Hebrew Bible in mainstream Jewish usage and the Christian Bible including the canonical Old Testament and New Testament, respectively.
An American Christian family's Bible dating to 1859. Disputes regarding the internal consistency and textual integrity of the Bible have a long history.. Classic texts that discuss questions of inconsistency from a critical secular perspective include the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus by Baruch Spinoza, the Dictionnaire philosophique of Voltaire, the Encyclopédie of Denis Diderot and The Age ...