Questions tagged [layers-of-meaning]
A literary technique where an author expects his audience to see additional meaning other than what a literal reading of the text conveys.
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Deeper understanding of Ezekiel 11:3's "...The time is not near to build houses. This city is the pot and we are the flesh.."
Ezekiel 11:3 's English translation sort of throws a spanner in the works in regard to how the Western 21st century bible reader can understand Ezekiel 11.
Ezekiel 11:1-4
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What does the light symbolize on the 1st day of God's creation, in Moses' Cosmology?
Specifically, I'm not asking what this light was (This would be very difficult), but what does this light symbolize on the 1st day of God's creation, in the cosmology of Moses?
It would also be ...
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Ezekiel 8"each man in the room of his carved images" shows Israelites metaphorical idolatry being uniquely different with different Israelites
I might just be asking the obvious.
Some parts Ezekiel 8 could certainly be describing how Israel actually fell into outwardly expressive explicit idolatry where they adopted the religious customs of ...
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In the Song of Solomon 5, is it be correct to interpret the honey, wine, milk, liquid myrrh, and the dew, etc., as biological fluids like semen?
In the Song of Solomon 5, would it be correct to interpret the honey, wine, milk, liquid myrrh, and the dew, etc., as biological fluids like semen?
Song of Solomon 5
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Romans 9:13 what is meant by God hated Esau? [duplicate]
I found the whole thing very confronting in regards to what about the people we love and pray for, for their salvation. But I felt that was why having relationship with God and praying was so ...
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What is the whole interpretation of Matthew 8:20 / Luke 9:58?
Matt. 8:20 / Luke 9:58 (KJV)
And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the
air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
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Luke 16:1-9 What is the meaning of the master's praise to the steward?
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[1] He also said to the disciples, “There was a rich man who had a
manager, and charges were brought to him that this man was wasting his
possessions. [2] And he called him and said to him, ‘What ...
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Alpha and Omega. In what sense does the Lord mention them?
Revelation 1:8 (ESV)
I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was
and who is to come, the Almighty.
Revelation 21:6
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end.
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What can one infer from Jeremiah 12:14-17 regarding the complex dynamic relationship btwn God, Israelites (Christians) & the Gentiles (nonChristians)?
Related posting: Can we infer/induce/deduce that (2 Corinthians 6:14) bible verse's use of "yoked"/ "bound" / "close association" applies to marriage?
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Leviticus 21: Why did God prohibit the physically defected, and what is the deeper spiritual meaning?
Leviticus 21:18-21 says:
18 No man who has any defect may come near: no man who is blind or
lame, disfigured or deformed; 19 no man with a crippled foot or hand,
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Does Mat 6:22-24 and Mat 10:28 together teach that each human created with two “bodies” or one “essentially two-part” body?
Jesus gave a parable for a crowd in Matthew 6:22-24, YLT:
22 'The lamp (“soul”?) of the body is the eye, if, therefore, thine eye may be perfect, all thy body shall be enlightened, 23 but if thine ...
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Proverbs 30:8-9's phrase "...Give me neither poverty nor riches;...." be a prayer to God to curtail one's feats,popularity to keep humility & kindness
Based on Proverbs 30:8-9, One could definitely conclude that when one thinks she/he has a lot of wealth, she/he might be disrespectfully
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Jeremiah 13:23 "Can the Ethiopian change his skin Or the leopard his spots?..Who are accustomed to doing evil" Dichotomy/Juxtaposition translations
Jeremiah 13:23
New American Standard Bible 1995
23 “Can the Ethiopian change his skin Or the leopard his spots? (b)
Then you also can do good Who are accustomed to doing evil.
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What is special about Strong's entry G3801?
Description of entry G3801 in Strong's Concordance gives:
ὁ ὢν καὶ ὁ ἦν καὶ ὁ ἐρχόμενος
a phrase combining G3588 with the present participle and imperfect of G1510 and the present participle of G2064 ...
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Angel of Lord attribute declaration of Gen 16:10 "...I will greatly multiply your [d]descendants so that they will be too many to count." to himself
Why does the Angel of Lord attribute declaration of Gen 16:10 "...I will greatly multiply your descendants so that they will be too many to count." to himself as opposed to The Lord(or at ...
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