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NASB | 2 Timothy 2:15 Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 2 Timothy 2:15 Study and do your best to present yourself to God approved, a workman [tested by trial] who has no reason to be ashamed, accurately handling and skillfully teaching the word of truth. |
Subject: 4 Principles of Interpretation |
Bible Note: Tim, I too thought Dr. Patterson's four hermeneutical principles clear and of considerable value, especially for the everyday layman, into which category I certainly fall and, I suspect, so do a number of other users of this forum. These principles [which Dr. Patterson admits are but four of numerous other principles] were extracted from a much larger article called "The Bible: A Book of Destiny." .... This forum on which you and I have been rather active for a year or more has been an eye-opener for me in several respects, not the least among them being the fact that hardly a day goes by when I don't see a post that attempts to address some fine point of biblical interpretation right down to the fractured stab at parsing some Greek or Hebrew word or locution. But the fact is, sad to say, that more often than not the poster shows a woefully inadequate knowledge and command of his own native language. I do not say this to demean or ridicule the poster, but it is a fact of the forum nonetheless. I am always inclined to ask myself, "How can this poster presume to understand the intricate and subtle patterns of grammar and syntax of a foreign language when clearly he does not understand them in his own?" And I definitely concur with your thinking that many of the problems that divide us as Christians into splintered and often opposing factions may well have, at least in some measure, their genesis in a weakness in the area of plain semantics. --Hank |