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According to some, they are due to mistaken majuscular letters; according to others, they are later insertions of originally omitted weak consonants. [28] In fifteen passages within the Bible, some words are stigmatized; i.e., dots appear above the letters. [47] The significance of the dots is disputed.
Clement of Rome in his Letter to the Corinthians says: 1Clem 45:1-5: You are contentious, brethren, and zealous for the things which lead to salvation. You have studied the Holy Scriptures, which are true, and given by the Holy Spirit. You know that nothing unjust or counterfeit is written in them.
The Pharisees have not properly understood the words of God. John MacEvilly refers to the disciples' "mere material violation of the letter of the law" as excused by their "exercise of mercy to the souls of their brethren, whom they wished to rescue from eternal perdition", and also to the Pharisees' "excessive zeal for the law", which renders ...
Biblical literalism or biblicism is a term used differently by different authors concerning biblical interpretation.It can equate to the dictionary definition of literalism: "adherence to the exact letter or the literal sense", [1] where literal means "in accordance with, involving, or being the primary or strict meaning of the word or words; not figurative or metaphorical".
The main concordance lists each word that appears in the KJV Bible in alphabetical order with each verse in which it appears listed in order of its appearance in the Bible, with a snippet of the surrounding text (including the word in italics). Appearing to the right of the scripture reference is the Strong's number.
While most English translations of the Bible render the Greek word zelotes in Acts 22:3 and Galatians 1:14 of the New Testament as the adjective "zealous", an article by Mark R. Fairchild [14] takes it to mean a Zealot and suggests that Paul the Apostle may have been a Zealot, which might have been the driving force behind his persecution of ...
The Bible [a] is a collection of religious texts and scriptures that are held to be sacred in Christianity, and partly in Judaism, Samaritanism, Islam, the BaháΚΌí Faith, and other Abrahamic religions. The Bible is an anthology (a compilation of texts of a variety of forms) originally written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Koine Greek. The texts ...
Methods by which the Talmud explores the meaning of scripture: grammar and exegesis; the interpretation of certain words and letters and apparently superfluous or missing words or letters, and prefixes and suffixes; the interpretation of those letters which, in certain words, are provided with points