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Feb 13	comment	“the first day of the week” in 1 Corinthians 16:2 Hi Sarah!!! Thank you for your answer. Somehow, I didn't notice it right away.
Feb 13	comment	“the first day of the week” in 1 Corinthians 16:2 I agree with you - it is a very interesting and at the same time very valid possibility.
Feb 13	comment	“the first day of the week” in 1 Corinthians 16:2 @DanO'Day - Well, perhaps, not all of the NT, but some parts.
Feb 12	comment	Romans 16:7 : “fellowprisoners” in the book of Romans?! @JonEricson - "Is that more or less what you were looking to have answered?" - Absolutely.
Jan 10	comment	Are there any rules on which things in Revelation must be interpreted literally and which symbolically? I understand your excitement about these similarities and parallels. In fact, I myself tend to stand on the side of this view. However, what I am after here is a critical and scientific approach rather than a theological one. As long as these two prophets are not explicitly named Moses and Elijah in the book of Revelation itself, we can only hold it as one of the possible theories.
Jan 9	comment	What are the differences between Hebrew and Aramaic? WOW!!! Thank you Frank.
Jan 8	comment	What are the differences between Hebrew and Aramaic? @Caleb - "But it was the language of choice for learned Jews and was both written and spoken by many at the time" - Oh, I see. Didn't know that. Thank you.
Jan 8	comment	What are the differences between Hebrew and Aramaic? @Caleb - "...about the basic difference between two languages that were contemporary to Jesus time" - Was Hebrew contemporary to Jesus time?
Jan 8	comment	Are there any rules on which things in Revelation must be interpreted literally and which symbolically? Do you base your conclusion that the two witnesses in Revelation are Elijah and Moses solely on similarities of the miracles performed? How is the chart that you have posted here a hermeneutics in the first place? It looks to me that it is merely a representation of your own interpretation of some characters in Revelation based on some similarities found in the Old Testament. One can agree or disagree with those similarities, but how is this hermeneutics?
Jan 3	comment	The meaning of the phrase “mustard seed”? @JonEricson - Having read that page, I am now thinking that my present question must be closed.
Dec 30	comment	The meaning of the phrase “mustard seed”? @MonicaCellio - Just did it.
Dec 30	comment	Does Revelation 21:9-11 equate the Bride of the Lamb with the City Jerusalem? I am not sure of this equation being fully supported by hermeneutics, but I am definitely familiar with such Christian teaching, according to which the New Jerusalem is just another reference to the Bride of Christ.
Dec 21	comment	Romans 16:7 : “fellowprisoners” in the book of Romans?! "Could he have been imprisoned in Corinth and was referring to Andronicus and Junias as his "fellow prisoners" in Rome?" - If he was then he had surely been released by the time he was writing Romans as in Rom. 15:25 he says that he is going to Jerusalem to serve saints. But then again it looks very strange that Luke decided not to say a word about that imprisonment.
Dec 21	comment	Romans 16:7 : “fellowprisoners” in the book of Romans?! (2) that Paul clearly lets us know that he had never been to Rome, however, in the last chapter he names and sends his regards to so many people from Rome (majority of which are never mentioned in Acts) that it really looks like he had already been there.
Dec 21	comment	Romans 16:7 : “fellowprisoners” in the book of Romans?! (1) Yes, you may be right. Is "fellow prisoners" by all means in apposition to "Andronicus and Junia" in Romans 16:7, that is, could the fellow prisoners be some other people than Andronicus and Junia? If yes, then Andronicus and Junia might've never been imprisoned at all. Well, that still doesn't solve the problem... What really puzzles me about Romans is
Dec 21	comment	Romans 16:7 : “fellowprisoners” in the book of Romans?! @NoahSnyder - Well, you are right - I think I need to research the time span that the scholars put forth as the time when Romans was written (51-58 a.d.) as this is exactly what they say and not what I think. However, unlike in the case with letters, Luke was sure to report even such a short imprisonment as one-night one with Silas in Acts 16 making it very unlikely that he dimmed any other case of imprisonment prior to Acts 23 as unimportant, especially if it was not only Paul, but Paul and some other fellow prisoners imprisoned.
Dec 21	comment	Romans 16:7 : “fellowprisoners” in the book of Romans?! @NoahSnyder - I see it in this phrase: "There are a number of reasons Corinth is most plausible. Paul was about to travel to Jerusalem on writing the letter, which matches Acts 20:3" - If we read Acts, we'll see that Paul simply had no time physically to be imprisoned prior to that time (excluding the short one-night imprisonment in Acts 16:23-28 with Silas, in which Andronicus and Junia, of course, couldn't have taken part), otherwise Luke would've surely reported it to us.
Dec 21	comment	Romans 16:7 : “fellowprisoners” in the book of Romans?! Thanks, but it seems that, if we believe what Wikipedia says, all scholars agree that Romans was written before Paul's VERY FIRST imprisonment, that is, he was never imprisoned prior to writing this epistle; however, this verse gives us a huge basis to think otherwise.
Nov 2	comment	How many more Christian writings written between the crucifixion of Christ and the death of the last of the 12 apostles do we know of? @Can you move it to Christianity? I originally meant to place it there, but because of the similar design made this mistake.
Nov 2	comment	How many more Christian writings written between the crucifixion of Christ and the death of the last of the 12 apostles do we know of? @Caleb - I don't think, though, that my question is too broad - you yourself said "some of which we know of", which I expect to be quite a limited number.