Exegesis

What he says is really important.

Exegete is I'm gonna start with the text and draw the meaning out of the text.

Eisegete, eis- is a Greek, uh, prefix that means to, essentially into, and he's saying, "What I don't wanna do is start with what I wanna preach and then go find it in the text."

Exactly.

That gets you out of bed in the morning.

Exegesis gets you out of bed.

[laughs] Well, yes.

Often, yes.

You don't look at your experience and start looking for scriptures to justify it.

So in, in Bible, um language there is exegesis and there's a segesis Exegesis is when you allow the Bible to explain itself.

Exegesis is that you're forcing the Bible to say a particular thing that it's not saying.

So let me spell what I've talked about in this lecture before, but let me get back at this.

[audience murmuring] And there's these two words that I wanna introduce to us today that helps us understand the difference between two approaches.

One is exegesis- Whoo [audience member claps] And one is eisegesis.

Exegesis is defined as drawing meaning out of the text, but eisegesis is reading my meaning into the text.

And that difference sounds technical, doesn't it? But we do it all the time.

Eisegesis is like taking a sentence that somebody said 10 years ago, removing it from the conversation, removing it from the situation, and using it to prove something that they were never actually trying to say.

I did a thesis on the variorum of Shakespeare when I was in college, and very few people know what that is.

But in the world of Bible teaching, you have what is called exegesis.

Exegesis means simply to explain in depth and detail what each verse and each word means.

Well, in secular literature, for example, when you're studying Shakespeare or John Donne or John Milton, you don't do exegesis, you do explication.

They call it explication, which is the same thing, except they use a different word.

Like as somebody who has also made it my priority to be doing that with the Bible, I want to rightly...

Exegesis just means to draw out the meaning.

Not to read meaning in, but I want to draw out the real meaning that's there.

That's good Bible study.

that's right.

Exegesis is taking meaning out of the text, and eisegesis is putting meaning into the text.

So my mind into the text or the text into my mind.

That's the difference, right? And you're right.

That is how you properly break down, pull meaning from the text.

Right? Exegesis, eisegesis.

Exegesis is when we pull meaning from the text.

Eisegesis is when we read meaning into it.

And so... as we're exegeting we're pulling from okay well sons of god what does that mean well what does it mean in other places of the bible oh man that sounds like but but to force in well i think it's talking about seth even though he's not even mentioned there and so