Rightly Dividing The Word of Truth is NOT a tool for the HYPER Dividers

 

2 Timothy 2:15

“Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”

King James Version (KJV)


sunder (v.)

Middle English sonderen, "separate (two or more things) from each other,"

Oxford English Dictionary page 710  Devise  - Divide
Digest, Commune - Discuss,  Think Out, Plan, Contrive, a mental process. A product of the MIND. To examine carefully look at attentively.


devise (v.)



early 13c., devisen, "to form, fashion;" c. 1300, "to plan, contrive, think or study out, elaborate in the mind," from Old French deviser "dispose in portions, arrange, plan, contrive"

Sense of "give, assign, or transmit by will" is from late 14c. division." 


expound (v.)

mid-14c., expounen, expounden, "to explain or comment on, to reveal the meaning" (of Scripture, etc.), from Old French espondre "expound (on), set forth, explain," from Latin exponere "put forth, expose, exhibit; set on shore, disembark; offer, leave exposed, reveal, publish,
hermeneutic (adj.)

"interpretive," 1670s, from Latinized form of Greek hermeneutikos "of or for interpreting," from hermeneutes "interpreter," from hermeneuein "to interpret


interpret (v.)

late 14c., "expound the meaning of, render clear or explicit,


MY 3 RULES for Solid Biblical Hermeneutics:

1.  CONTEXT
2. EXEGESIS - expound - reveal meaning of syntax, grammar, vocabulary
3. HARMONIZE scripture with scripture


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