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NASB | John 7:18 "He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory; but He who is seeking the glory of the One who sent Him, He is true, and there is no unrighteousness in Him. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 7:18 "He who speaks on his own accord seeks glory and honor for himself. But He who seeks the glory and the honor of the One who sent Him, He is true, and there is no unrighteousness or deception in Him. |
Subject: Apostolic Proof-texting? |
Bible Note: EdB, "Within the Bible there often times a duplicity of meaning, there is a word for it that slips my mind." I think the word your are looking for is polyvalent or multiple levels of interpretation or senses of scriptural meaning. Duplicitous usually implies lying or deceiving. " The Senses of Scripture" 117 The spiritual sense. Thanks to the unity of God's plan, not only the text of Scripture but also the realities and events about which it speaks can be signs. 1. The allegorical sense. We can acquire a more profound understanding of events by recognizing their significance in Christ; thus the crossing of the Red Sea is a sign or type of Christ's victory and also of Christian Baptism.[84] 2. The moral sense. The events reported in Scripture ought to lead us to act justly. As St. Paul says, they were written "for our instruction".[85] 3. The anagogical sense (Greek: anagoge, "leading"). We can view realities and events in terms of their eternal significance, leading us toward our true homeland: thus the Church on earth is a sign of the heavenly Jerusalem.[86] 118 A medieval couplet summarizes the significance of the four senses: The Letter speaks of deeds; Allegory to faith; The Moral how to act; Anagogy our destiny.[87] 119 "It is the task of exegetes to work, according to these rules, towards a better understanding and explanation of the meaning of Sacred Scripture in order that their research may help the Church to form a firmer judgement. For, of course, all that has been said about the manner of interpreting Scripture is ultimately subject to the judgement of the Church which exercises the divinely conferred commission and ministry of watching over and interpreting the Word of God."[88] But I would not believe in the Gospel, had not the authority of the Catholic Church already moved me.[89]" 84 Cf. I Cor 10:2. 85 I Cor 10:11; cf. Heb 3:1 -4:11. 86 Cf. Rev 21:1 - 22:5. 87 Lettera gesta docet, quid credas allegoria, moralis quid agas, quo tendas anagogia. 88 DV 12 # 3. 89 St. Augustine, Contra epistolam Manichaei 5, 6: PL 42, 176. The Catechism of the Catholic Church Emmaus |