Sentences with phrase «whole point of the passage»

Not exact matches

This smaller unit (vs. 16) toward which the whole passage is pointed 7 is the reproduction — insofar as such is capable of reproduction — of the word received in prophetic concentration / ecstasy.

The whole of this passage of Isaiah was of great importance to Christians as pointing to the fact that the paradoxical death of the Messiah was part of God's plan, and later on this particular verse may have influenced the development of the detailed story of Nicodemus and the burial of Jesus.

Various procedures would have been used by him in order to revise his text, the most important being the insertion, at various places in the original manuscript, of passages expressing his new vision, at times a few lines, at times even whole sections, with the intention of leading his eventual readers to interpret the whole context in the light of the point of view of the inserted materials.3 Ford proposes that Whitehead did modify his original manuscript accordingly a number of times before its publication in 1929, with the result that the final version of Process and Reality is actually the outcome of the superposition of texts from successive redactional strata over the original stratum made by the manuscript of the summer of l927.4

The modern way of expressing the point is to require that interpretation be canonical, each passage being interpreted kerygmatically and normatively as part of the whole body of God's revealed instruction.

In Luke 7:44 - 48, Jesus turns to the woman and makes the point of this whole passage very clear.

My point is that in order to maintain the subordination of women Christians have to make a whole lot of stuff up for themselves and explain away a lot of scripture that contradicts the passages they are using to prop up their belief that women's roles are limited.

I once heard Brueggemann speak on this Gospel passage, pointing out that in it Jesus reenacts the whole history of Israel.