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Alcuin: "He who alone is absolutely holy, harmless, undefiled; of whom the prophet saith, There shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a branch (Nazaræus) shall grow out of his roots (Isaiah 11:1). Or the words may be taken as expressing doubt, and asking the question."
It contains three types of commentary: (1) the p'shat, which discusses the literal meaning of the text; this has been adapted from the first five volumes of the JPS Bible Commentary; (2) the d'rash, which draws on Talmudic, Medieval, Chassidic, and Modern Jewish sources to expound on the deeper meaning of the text; and (3) the halacha l'maaseh ...
Commentary from the Church Fathers [ edit ] Chrysostom : "Nathanael, in difficulty as to Christ coming out of Nazareth, showed the care with which he had read the Scriptures: his not rejecting the tidings when brought him, showed his strong desire for Christ’s coming.
Second because we nowhere read about Christ calling Bartholomew. Thirdly because the other gospels do not mention Nathanael only Bartholomew. However, St. Augustine disagrees on account of Nathanael being overly learned in the law, believing that Jesus would only choose fishermen. Nathanael in Hebrew means the gift of God. [1] [2]
the Word and the Word made flesh (John 1:1, 14), identified by the Christian theology with the second divine person of the Most Holy Trinity; the Son of God (John 1:34,49) and the Unigenitus Son of God and the Nicene Creed) the Lamb of God (John 1:29,36) Rabbi, meaning Teacher or Master (John 1:38,49) the Messiah, or the Christ
The Anchor Bible Commentary Series, created under the guidance of William Foxwell Albright (1891–1971), comprises a translation and exegesis of the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament and the Intertestamental Books (the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Deuterocanon/the Protestant Apocrypha; not the books called by Catholics and Orthodox "Apocrypha", which are widely called by Protestants ...
In 2018 Robert Alter completed his translation of the Hebrew Bible, The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary. Installments of the translation were released over the course of more than two decades. Alter's goals included preserving the artistry of the Hebrew language in the English translation. [25] A previous milestone was his 2004 ...
John 1:19–25 [114] has John the Baptist being asked if he was "the Prophet" after denying he was the Messiah or Elijah. Islamic preacher Ahmed Deedat said this was a prophecy of Muhammad. [110] [115] John 14:16, 15:26, 16:7 and John 18:36 [116] – These verses describe a Paraclete or comforter.