Sentences with phrase «forced upon the text»

But Kaiser knows that this arbitrary divisions of the law is not found within the Bible itself, but is forced upon the text by some scholars who want to keep some portions of the law, but not others.

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I also know several instructors who have pointed out to me the deliberate modifications to text books for the sake of publisher profits that are forced upon students every year.

they perform a kind of limping dance, and as Elijah taunts them, their wild performance reaches its emotionally uncontrolled peak when they «cut themselves after their custom with swords and lances until the blood gushed out upon them» (I Kings 18:28) Noon, Baal's best and strongest hour, passes, but the prophets of Baal — note the language of the text --» «continue to prophesy» (vs. 29) The R.S.N. is forced to interpret: «they raved on.»

This verse is ambiguous, and all sides of the debate need to understand that we tend to force our theology upon the text to get it to say what we want, rather than allow it to remain ambiguous and move on to other texts which might be more clear.

A loose union of parents and teachers — with no clear hierarchy, no clear messaging other than to tell outside forces and charter operators to back off, and not even an agreed upon method of communication (there was varied use of text messages, Facebook Messenger, Twitter, Slack, and occasional phone calls)-- managed to decimate their three - quarters - of - a-million-dollar summer project.

Easy sections might have relatively generous checkpoints, while harder areas with lengthy text discussions between Moody and the humans won't see checkpoints for 15 - 30 minutes, forcing you to trudge through dull combat scenarios or sit through duller story upon restarting.

Maunz's preoccupation with the violence of architecture, the forces of structures imposed upon bodies, is an echo of Borzutsky's text.