SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES

The sentence beginning with (eraunate), in John 5:39 the King James Version has been almost universally regarded as meaning "Search the scriptures, for in them ye think ye have eternal life." But one cannot read as far as dokeite, "ye think," without feeling that there is something wrong with the ordinary version. This verb is at least a disturbing element in the current of thought (if not superfluous), and only when the first verb is taken as an indicative does the meaning of the writer become clear. The utterance is not a command, but a declaration: "Ye search the scriptures, because ye think that in them," etc. Robert Barclay as early as 1675, in his Apology for the True Christian Divinity (91;), refers to two scholars before him who had handed down the correct tradition: "Moreover, that place may be taken in the indicative mood, Ye search the Scriptures; which interpretation the Greek word will bear, and so Pasor translated it: which by the reproof following seemeth also to be the more genuine interpretation, as Cyrillus long ago hath observed." So Dr. Edwin A. Abbott, in his Johannine Grammar (London, 1906, section 2439 (i)). See also Transactions American Philological Association, 1901, 64 f.

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SCRIPTURES, SEARCH THE

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1124. graphe -- a writing, scripture
... of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: graphe Phonetic Spelling: (graf-ay')
Short Definition: a writing, passage of scripture, the scriptures Definition: (a ...
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3551. nomos -- that which is assigned, hence usage, law
... a force or influence impelling to action; of the Mosaic law; meton: of the books
which contain the law, the Pentateuch, the Old Testament scriptures in general ...
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2315. theopneustos -- God-breathed, ie inspired by God
... 2315 ("God-breathed"), likely a term , "expresses the sacred nature of the Scriptures
(their divine origin) and their power to sanctify believers" (C. Spicq, 2 ...
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3547. nomodidaskalos -- a teacher of the law
... This person was so highly learned (scholarly) in the Hebrew Scriptures (OT), they
had the status of "" -- ie a premier "teacher of the Law" who gave "expert ...
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1321. didasko -- to teach
... disseminate information). In the NT, 1321 ("teach") nearly always refers to
teaching the Scriptures (the written Word of God). The key ...
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1425. dusnoetos -- hard to understand
... in them of these things, in which are some things (1425 ), which the untaught and
unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own ...
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1125. grapho -- to write
... Transliteration: grapho Phonetic Spelling: (graf'-o) Short Definition: I write
Definition: I write; pass: it is written, it stands written (in the scriptures). ...
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4102. pistis -- faith, faithfulness
... Christ, the living word, is our sufficiency . . . (Charles Price, , Logos/publications).
: On the distinction between (belief), and in the Scriptures see Js 2 ...
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The Scriptures
... 2. Introduction 2. The Scriptures. ... How does it appear that the Scriptures
have a Jus Divinum, a divine authority stamped upon them? ...
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The Scriptures.
... III. THE SCRIPTURES. THE Scriptures carry such a blessed beauty in them
to that soul that has faith in the things contained in them ...
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Understanding the Scriptures
Understanding the Scriptures. <. Understanding the Scriptures Francis
McConnell. Produced by Charles Aldarondo, Tiffany ...
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Search the Scriptures
... Search the Scriptures. A Sermon ... Come ye, and search the Scriptures; they are no such
mysterious fables or learned volumes of hard words as some men say. ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 4 1858/search the scriptures.htm

The Scriptures.
... THE SCRIPTURES. 194. " The Scriptures. 194. LM Anonymous. The Scriptures.
1 Lamp of our feet! whose hallowed beam Deep in our ...
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When the Scriptures are Quoted, or Alluded To, they are Quoted ...
... PART I. SECTION II. When the Scriptures are quoted, or alluded to, they
are quoted with peculiar respect? When the Scriptures ...
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The Scriptures a Safeguard.
... 37. THE SCRIPTURES A SAFEGUARD. [Illustration: Chapter header.] "To the
law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to ...
/.../37 the scriptures a safeguard.htm

The Duty of Searching the Scriptures
... The Duty of Searching the Scriptures. John 5:39 " "Search the Scriptures."
When the Sadducees came to our blessed Lord, and put ...
/.../whitefield/selected sermons of george whitefield/the duty of searching the.htm

On the Perspicuity of the Scriptures I.
... DISPUTATION VIII ON THE PERSPICUITY OF THE SCRIPTURES I. The perspicuity of the
Scriptures is a quality agreeing with them as with a sign, according. ...
/.../the works of james arminius vol 2/disputation viii on the perspicuity.htm

Of the Scriptures
... Lecture V. Of The Scriptures. Eph. ... But yet there are many who do not reject the
Scriptures in judgment, who, notwithstanding, do not build on them in practice. ...
/.../binning/the works of the rev hugh binning/lecture v of the scriptures.htm

Scriptures (25 Occurrences)
... SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES. ... The utterance is not a command, but a declaration: "Ye
search the scriptures, because ye think that in them," etc. ...
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Search (186 Occurrences)
... (2) When applied to the Scriptures, as in Ezra 4:15, 19 (baqqer); John 5:39 1 Peter
1:11 (eraunao), it means to examine, to study out the meaning. ...
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Allegory (6 Occurrences)
... Pilgrim's Progress. Allegories of this character abound in the Scriptures,
both in Old Testament and in New Testament. Instructive ...
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Apollos (11 Occurrences)
... A Jew "born at Alexandria," a man well versed in the Scriptures and eloquent
(Acts 18:24; RV, "learned"). ... He was mighty in the Scriptures. ...
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Nebuchadrezzar (31 Occurrences)
... Babylon. Of all the heathen monarchs mentioned by name in the Scriptures,
Nebuchadnezzar is the most prominent and the most important. ...
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Wealthy (22 Occurrences)
... of God (Ecclesiastes 5:19; Ecclesiastes 6:2). The doctrine of "blessed are the poor,
and cursed are the rich" finds no countenance in the Scriptures, for Luke 6 ...
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Wealth (340 Occurrences)
... of God (Ecclesiastes 5:19; Ecclesiastes 6:2). The doctrine of "blessed are the poor,
and cursed are the rich" finds no countenance in the Scriptures, for Luke 6 ...
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Fulfilled (143 Occurrences)
... (KJV WBS). Matthew 26:54 How then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that
it must be so?" (WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV). ...
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Theology
... we are to believe, and the duties we are to practice; divinity; (as more commonly
understood) the knowledge derivable from the Scriptures, the systematic ...
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Eunice (1 Occurrence)
... mother of Timothy, a believing Jewess, but married to a Greek (Acts 16:1). She trained
her son from his childhood in the knowledge of the Scriptures (2 Timothy ...
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