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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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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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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What does it mean when God says that he desires mercy and not sacrifice according Hosea 6:6
Jesus was asked in Matthew 9:13 about why he was eating with sinners. His response to the Pharisees was to ask them to go and learn about the meaning of Hosea 6:6 ("I desire mercy and not sacrifice..."...
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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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Meaning of Isaiah 65:16
What does “because he who is blessed in the earth will be blessed by the God of truth” mean?
Because he who is blessed in the earth Will be blessed by the God of truth; And he who swears in the ...
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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,
20 or who is a hunchback or a dwarf, ...
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What does phrase in Psalm 139:9 "the wings of the dawn/the wings of the morning" mean?
I might be asking the obvious.
What does phrase in Psalm 139:9 "the wings of the dawn/the wings of the morning" mean?
(Psalm 139:7-10) (NASB1995)
7 Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where ...
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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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Isaiah 41:1 use of the terms "coastlands" and "islands" a reference to heathen nations as in any nation Other Than the chosen nation of Israel
Isaiah 41:1 NASB 1995
“Coastlands, listen to Me in silence, And let the peoples gain new strength; Let them come forward, then let them speak; Let us come together for judgment.
Isaiah 41:1 NKJV
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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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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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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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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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