Why Isolated Greek Word Studies Fall
The Lord calls His people not merely to notice sacred words, but to understand their sense faithfully. When Ezra’s helpers “read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense,” the hearers received the meaning of the passage (Nehemiah 8:8). A word study may illuminate an important term, yet no dictionary entry can settle its meaning apart from the sentence in which it stands, the passage that bears it, and the book’s larger purpose. Words can carry several senses, and their use must be discerned with patience rather than assumption. In Luke 10:25–28, the lawyer asks about…
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