Biblical hermeneutics

It was r- primarily-- It isn't just primarily a revivalist movement.

It's a b- it's based on biblical interpretation.

And then to do that, uh, most people-- You know, we can overstress academics and, and that's what many people do.

They overstress it.

Spinoza, I repeat, knew perfectly well what this verbal mode of dealing with the Bible was worth, but he sometimes uses it because of the hypothesis from which he set out, because of his having agreed to take scripture as it stands and not to ask how it arose.

No doubt the sagacity of Spinoza's rules for biblical interpretation, the power of his analysis of the contents of the Bible, the interest of his reflections on Jewish history are, in spite of this, very great and have an absolute worth of their own independent of the silence or ambiguity of their author upon a point of cardinal importance.

Few candid people will read his rules of interpretation without exclaiming that they are the very dictates of good sense, that they have always believed in them, and without adding after a moment's reflection that they have passed their lives in violating them.

And what can be more interesting than to find that perhaps the main cause of the decay of the Jewish polity was one of which from our English Bible, which entirely mistranslates the twenty-sixth verse of the twentieth chapter of Ezekiel, we hear nothing, the perpetual reproach of impurity and rejection cast upon the priesthood of the tribe of Levi? What can be more suggestive after Mr.

Spinoza, I repeat, knew perfectly well what this verbal mode of dealing with the Bible was worth, but he sometimes uses it because of the hypothesis from which he set out, because of his having agreed to take scripture as it stands and not to ask how it arose.

No doubt the sagacity of Spinoza's rules for biblical interpretation, the power of his analysis of the contents of the Bible, the interest of his reflections on Jewish history are, in spite of this, very great and have an absolute worth of their own independent of the silence or ambiguity of their author upon a point of cardinal importance.

Few candid people will read his rules of interpretation without exclaiming that they are the very dictates of good sense, that they have always believed in them, and without adding after a moment's reflection that they have passed their lives in violating them.

And what can be more interesting than to find that perhaps the main cause of the decay of the Jewish polity was one of which from our English Bible, which entirely mistranslates the twenty-sixth verse of the twentieth chapter of Ezekiel, we hear nothing: the perpetual reproach of impurity and rejection cast upon the priesthood of the tribe of Levi? What can be more suggestive after Mr.

Exactly.

And this is as good a time as any to bring up the subject of hermeneutics, biblical hermeneutics.

Now, don't let the 85-cent words scare you there, but the word hermeneutics refers to accurately getting the meaning out of the text.

We don't want to impose a meaning on the text.

Spinoza, I repeat, knew perfectly well what this verbal mode of dealing with the Bible was worth, but he sometimes uses it because of the hypothesis from which he set out, because of his having agreed to take Scripture as it stands and not to ask how it arose.

No doubt the sagacity of Spinoza's rules for biblical interpretation, the power of his analysis of the contents of the Bible, the interest of his reflections on Jewish history are, in spite of this, very great and have an absolute worth of their own, independent of the silence or ambiguity of their author upon a point of cardinal importance.

Few candid people will read his rules of interpretation without exclaiming that they are the very dictates of good sense, that they have always believed in them, and without adding, after a moment's reflection, that they have passed their lives in violating them.

And what can be more interesting than to find that perhaps the main cause of the decay of the Jewish polity was one of which, from our English Bible, which entirely mistranslates the twenty-sixth verse of the twentieth chapter of Ezekiel, we hear nothing, the perpetual reproach of impurity and rejection cast upon the priesthood of the tribe of Levi? What can be more suggestive, after Mr.

The first question that you want to ask, let me share the screen.

It's called Bible hermeneutics.

I don't know if you've ever heard that big fancy word there, but Bible hermeneutics is very, very easy.

So let me go to my website here.

And I keep forgetting I have to update my description box.