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Occam's answer:
The toleration of polygamy in the OT is not to say that it was an ideal, and we see that the laws dealing with it are mostly proscriptive. The ideal is more likely represented by the monogamous story of Adam and Eve. But for various reasons, the position of women in the ancient world was such that polygamy was an unavoidable fact of life ...
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This test has many dimensions to it. It has little to do with the guilt or innocence of the woman.
In order for the test to apply, the woman must become foolish. This has been interpreted to mean that she has aroused her husband's jealousy by flirting. Or she has aroused the suspicion of witnesses to her flirting, but they have not witnessed adultery, and ...
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John’s extensive marriage theme begins with none other than the wedding of Cana and Jesus’ encounter with His own mother, the first woman to appear in the gospel.
When the "mother of Jesus" approaches him about the wedding’s lack of wine, she assumes and expects her son to assume a role that in Jewish custom is specifically reserved for the groom and or ...
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We often think that the punishment for adultery in the Bible was stoning but according to the Mishnah (Sanh. xi. 1) it was strangulation. John Owen says, strangulation was used for: adulterers, strikers of parents, man-stealers, old men exemplarily rebellious against the law, false prophets, and those who predicted the future under the names of idols (John ...
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The following quote regarding Jesus' reference to His "hour" comes from D. A. Carson's commentary on John (generally considered to be the best available commentary on this book of the Bible): (See p. 171)
"The reason Jesus gives for the distance he maintains between his mother and himself must be viewed in the light of the cross. . . . the word 'time', ...
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There are cases where masculine pronouns are used in reference to the Holy Spirit.
For example, John 16:13:
John 16:13
Greek text: ὅταν δὲ ἔλθῃ ἐκεῖνος τὸ πνεῦμα τῆς ἀληθείας ὁδηγήσει ὑμᾶς εἰς πάσαν τῆν ἀληθείαν οὐ γὰρ λαλήσει ἀφ᾽ ἑαυτοῦ ἀλλ᾽ ὅσα ἂν ἀκούσῃ λαλήσει καὶ τὰ ἐρχόμενα ἀναγγελεῖ ὑμῖν
English translation: But, when he, the Holy Spirit, ...
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The entire verse (in Hebrew) reads as follows:
לא יהיה כלי גבר על אשה ולא ילבש גבר שׁמלת אשה כי תועבת יהוה אלהיך כל עשׁה אלה ף
From right-to-left, these words are:
לא - H3808 - Not (when paired with a verb, considered imperative - "Must not")
יהיה - H1961 - Be, become, come to pass, happen
כלי - H3627 - Article, implement, vessel, object; can include ...
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Those who opposed the custom of women wearing a head covering, as was customary in the middle-east, were those 'inclined to be argumentative'. Paul is not negating any part of his argument but showing how firm his stance was on the issue.
Paul always stressed submitting to local cultures and customs. This verse at the end follows a lengthly argument why in ...
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If you believe that the text is divine, then this isn't a question about the text. It's a question about why G!d chooses this asymmetrical policy. And, as such, that question belongs, I believe, on a doctrinal site.
If you look at the text as a text, then you are looking at the social and cultural context of the time in which it was written. In that society ...
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Polygyny was acceptable because women were considered to be possessions. That is why Sarah called Avraham adon (Gen. 18:13 cp. 1 Pet. 3:6), or "sir"/ "lord"/ "master." The husband is essentially considered to be his wife's "master," and she, his servant.
This is why women did not have the right to divorce their husband. The only way they could re-marry was ...
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In Genesis 3:17-19, God had cursed the ground because of the sin of Adam, and therefore the earth receives the disobedient curse. Thus the ground produces thorns and thistles and is thus "disobedient" to the cultivation of the land by Adam (mankind), whose sweat of the brow is the turmoil that results. The Apostle Paul accounts for the disturbances of the ...
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