The following is an old e-mail correspondence that took place in October of 2009: Is the interpretation of 1 Corinthians 7 v1 below correct? The full article is linked below for you to reference. I really want to get this right and it seems to be at odds with your understanding per your advice to [...]
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The following is quite interesting. I found it while doing a google book word search. The following are excerpts from “The London Magazine, Or, Gentleman’s Monthly Intelligencer,” Volume XLIX for the year 1780. I’ll be interspersing my comments, the Lord willing. ABSTRACT OF THE REV. MR. MADAN’s DISSERTATION ON MARRIAGE AS A DIVINE INSTITUTION. I [...]
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I found this quote from a google books word search: “He also represents it to them as a selfevident principle, that he who is joined in affection and criminal conversation to an harlot, is one body with her. “What! know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two [...]
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Recently a question was posed concerning the meaning of “disqualification” in 1 Corinthians 9:27 and 2 Corinthians 13:5. The following was my response to the aforementioned query: In performing a search of the Greek word (adokimos) that is translated “disapproved” or “disqualified” the same Greek word (adokimos) is found in 1 Corinthians 9:27, 2 Corinthians [...]
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“For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to announce the gospel, not in wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ be made of no effect. For the Word of the cross is foolishness to those being lost, but to us being saved, it is the power of God” (1 Corinthians 1:17-18). If [...]
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“For no one is able to lay any other foundation beside the One having been laid, who is Jesus Christ” (1 Corinthians 3:11). Commentary from Gordon Clark: “The foundation of the building is Christ, for the building is the Church; and the Church cannot possibly have any other foundation. This is why–3:11 is a reason [...]
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John Gill on Philippians 3:15
“Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you” (Philippians 3:15). Paul, in verse 2 warns the Philippian believers about “dogs” and those of the “concision [party].” From verse 3 we see that those “dogs” whom Paul [...]
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