In my previous 5-blog series regarding the introduction to Peter’s first letter (1Peter 1-2), we discussed the possibility that Peter’s introduction could easily be interpreted as Peter’s attempt to introduce the content of his letter: that content being the blessing of the gospel message (Gen 12:1-2, Gal 3:8) delivered to the Jews first and then to the nations. (Romans 1:16) We also discussed the probability of Peter identifying himself as an “apostle” to intentionally lea

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In my last blog, the clusivity clues that we discovered in Paul’s use of the referential pronouns in Ephesians 1:12 and 1:13 led us to...

In a previous blog, I told the story about my Beginning Hebrew teacher deriving great joy from teaching his lesson on the Hebrew...

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I remember the smirkish grin on the face of my Beginning Hebrew teacher and the joy he seemed to derive from asking the question “Who is...

In linguistics, clusivity is a term describing the grammatical feature of the use of first-person plural pronouns (“we/us/our,”) using...

In previous posts we've noticed that the Scriptures chronicle the story of how God strategically weaves His purposes into human history...