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No. It is unlikely that the context refers to China. Firstly because Isaiah 49 seems to relate to a more local geography and also because the name Sinae is not attached to China at this period. Gesenius favoured China, but other lexicographers have pointed also at Syene, modern Aswan, in Egypt. The KJV left the […]

This is a textual theory as follows: Per Craig David (2007) … the Tablet Theory of Genesis first suggested by Percy Wiseman makes a genuine effort to explain the appearance of antiquity in Genesis. Wiseman states: “The book of Genesis was originally written on tablets in the ancient script of the by the patriarchs who were intimately concerned with […]

The word μορφὴ (morphē, form, appearance) is a classical Greek noun best known from Mark’s brief mention of Jesus having appeared to two disciples in another morphē – which is expanded in Luke 24:13-35 where Luke says that Cleopas and the other unnamed disciples’ eyes were “holden” to not recognize Jesus. And also from Philippians […]

Tartarus occurs as ‘the deep’ in the Septuagint of Job 40:20 about the mythical beast Behemoth, and again in 41:32 (numbered 41:24 in LXX) about the lair of another mythical beast Leviathan. 20 And when he has gone up to a steep mountain, he causes joy to the quadrupeds in the deep. (Job 40:20 LXX ἐν τῷ ταρτάρῳ, […]

This is a big question and the answer is not as straightforward as you might think. On the one hand, the New Testament encourages believers to live in unity with one another (e.g. Eph 4:3). On the other hand, the New Testament warns against those who spread false teaching (e.g. 2 John 1:10-11). Imagine there […]

Question: Did an angel tell Matthew about the temptations of Jesus in the wilderness? Or did Jesus tell the disciples during his ministry? Answer: There are at least four reasons to think that the answer is the second of the above; that Jesus himself told the disciples the account of the temptations in the wilderness: (1) if […]

Paul’s reference to “those who are baptized for the dead” is one of the more obscure references in 1 Corinthians: Now if there is no resurrection, what will those do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized for them? (1 Corinthians 15:29) Christian readers […]

The question relates to one of Daniel’s visions – of the future.   13 “I saw in the night visions, and behold, with the clouds of heaven     there came one like a son of man, and he came to the Ancient of Days     and was presented before him. 14 And to him was given dominion     and glory and […]

The ESV is the only version to have “Jesus” following the Alexandrian text where other versions have “the Lord” following the majority of manuscripts. The United Bible Society committee which produced the UBS Greek text NA27 in Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament has this comment on Jude 1:5: Despite the weighty attestation supporting […]