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NASB | Deuteronomy 29:29 ¶ "The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our sons forever, that we may observe all the words of this law. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Deuteronomy 29:29 ¶ "The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things which are revealed and disclosed belong to us and to our children forever, so that we may do all of the words of this law. |
Subject: How was the identity known by Peter? |
Bible Note: I looked up "Priciples of Bible Interpretation", and read many interesting things. I pray the Lord will yet help those of us who are simple and uneducated to understand what he is saying to us in the Bible. It is a good idea to "be silent where the Bible is silent". It is another matter, I think, to act as though the Lord had the writers of Scripture to record everything he or they had in mind. I will reveal now that I had begun the last paragraph with the words "I think". I decided to leave it out because I tend to use that phrase too much, I think, and because I assume you understand that I think before I write. While we are not to add to God's word, I think that we must think as we read. Sometimes a writer records the very words of a conversation, quoting the people. At other times he gives the topic of conversation or a summary of it. We do know, though, that in every case the people talking used words which could have been quoted. My point is that we are seem to be creating an unnecessary difficulty for ourselves by imagining that three people talked to each other with no one ever referring to the others by their names. "We don't know" is often a good response. I suggest that we should be careful not to overuse it lest we give the impression that God is withholding so much information from us. The Bible is meant to reveal God, so we can know him, and his will, so that we can do it. |