CrossLinks Topical Index - TE


teach : elders - teach; teach - faithful men ; teach - priest for pay; teach - self
teach - elders : elders - teach
teach - faithful men : Ex. 18:20-22; 1Cor. 4:2; 2Ti. 2:2

"If, then, the blessed (apostle) delivered these things with a pious caution, which could be easily known by all, as he perceived in the spirit that “all men have not faith,” how much greater will be our danger, if, rashly and without thought, we commit the revelations of God to profane and unworthy men? . . . Only see that you do not give these things over to unbelieving and blasphemous tongues, for that is no common danger. But impart them to pious and faithful men, who desire to live holily and righteously with fear. For it is not to no purpose that the blessed apostle exhorts Timothy, and says, “O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called; which some professing have erred concerning the faith.”" Ref-0541, Hippolytus Treatise on Christ and Antichrist, Ref-0541, p. 204. "We desperately need the teaching of the Word of God. We have enough preaching—we have enough people telling us what they think. What does God say? What difference does it make what you or I think? What God thinks—that is what is important." Ref-0465, 3:560 (Dan. 5:24).


teach - priest for pay : Mic. 3:11
teach - self : Rom. 2:21
teachability : teaching - receive
teachable : teachable - not
teachable - not : Ecc. 4:13
teacher : exegesis - Eph._4:11 ; Holy Spirit - teacher ; Joseph - teacher; pastor - teacher (didaskalos) ; teacher - example; teacher - false; teacher - Jesus only
teacher - example : Acts 8:31
teacher - false : Isa. 8:20; 2Ti. 2:17; 2Ti. 3:13; Tit. 1:11; 2Jn. 1:10; Rev. 2:2
teacher - Holy Spirit : Holy Spirit - teacher
teacher - Jesus only : Mat. 23:10
teacher - Joseph : Joseph - teacher
teacher - pastor : pastor - teacher (didaskalos)
teacher - pastor - equivalent : exegesis - Eph._4:11
teachers : elders - pay ; teachers - false - named ; teachers - false - separate from; teachers - heard; teachers - ignored - not to be ; teachers - Jesus exceeded; teachers - judged strictly; teachers - test against scripture; teachers - twisting scripture; teachers - unqualified
teachers - false - named :

✪ 1Ti. 1:18-20

; 2Ti. 4:14; 2Ti. 2:16-17
teachers - false - separate from : Rom. 16:17; Tit. 3:10; 2Ti. 2:20-21; 2Jn. 1:10-11
teachers - heard : Isa. 30:20-21
teachers - ignored - not to be : Acts 13:1; 1Cor. 12:28; Eph. 4:11; 2Ti. 1:11; Jas. 3:1

✪ Believers often make the mistake of thinking they can learn without the input of others who are called as teachers to the Body of Christ. This can be a serious mistake. "Finally we desire to say that the conclusions we have reached involve nothing (unless in respect to some minor details) that has not been pointed out by sound Bible expositors of other days. This, however, we were (in some important particulars) unaware of until our studies were completed; for while they were in progress we consulted no human authorities except Anstey's Bible Chronology, mentioned above." Ref-0896, p. 2. "Spurgeon had no patience with those who said, ‘“We will not read anything except the book itself, neither will we accept any light, except that which comes in through a crack in our own roof. We will not see by another man’s candle, we would sooner remain in the dark” Brethren, do not let us fall into such folly.’" Ref-1324, p. 35n36. "In order to be able to expound the Scriptures … you will need to be familiar with the commentators: a glorious army, let me tell you, whose acquaintance will be your delight and profit. Of course, you are not such wiseacres as to think or say that you can expound Scripture without assistance from the works of divines and learned men who have laboured before you in the field of exposition." -- Charles Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students, Vol. 4: Commenting and Commentaries, n.p.


teachers - Jesus exceeded : Ps. 119:99; Luke 2:47
teachers - judged strictly : Jas. 3:1
teachers - support : elders - pay
teachers - test against scripture : Deu. 13:1-4; Isa. 8:20; Jer. 23:28-29
teachers - twisting scripture : Deu. 4:2; Deu. 12:32; Pr. 30:6; 2Pe. 3:16; Rev. 1:3; Rev. 22:18
teachers - unqualified : Rom. 2:21; 1Ti. 1:7
teaching : correction - doctrinal; doctrine - winds of ; God - all know ; preaching - topical ; teaching - children; teaching - false desired; teaching - from God; teaching - gift; teaching - hired; teaching - of demons; teaching - prophesying not ; teaching - receive; teaching - refused ; teaching - understanding; women - teaching ; worship - after teaching; worship - teaching - equal time
teaching - before worship : worship - after teaching
teaching - children : Gen. 18:19; Ex. 10:2; Ex. 10:10-11; Ex. 12:26; Ex. 13:14; Deu. 4:9-10; Deu. 6:7; Deu. 11:19; Ps. 78:5; Pr. 4:3; Isa. 38:19; Isa. 59:21; Mal. 2:15; Eph. 6:4; 2Ti. 3:15
teaching - false desired : Isa. 30:10; Jer. 5:31; 2Ti. 4:3
teaching - from God : Ecc. 12:11
teaching - gift : Ex. 35:34
teaching - hired : Mic. 3:11
teaching - no longer necessary : God - all know
teaching - of demons : 1Ti. 4:1
teaching - prophesying not :

"The prophetic gift is always a supernatural gift. It is not merely heightened human insight, nor can it be equated with today's preaching in the pulpit. The preacher is not a prophet." F. David Farnell, The Gift of Prophecy in the New Testament, Ref-0164 25(2) Fall 2004, 45-62, pp. 45-46. "There are good indications that in the NT it is the presence or absence of revelation which distinguishes prophecy from teaching. In the NT, prophecy always depends on a revelation, but, by contrast, no human speech act which is called a διδαχη or διδασκαλια done by a διδασκαλος or described by the verb διδασκω is ever said to be based on αποκαλυψις. Furthermore, no j in the NT is ever said to result in a “teaching” of one man to another. Instead, teaching is put in contrast to divine “revelation.”" F. David Farnell, The Gift of Prophecy in the New Testament, Ref-0164 25(2) Fall 2004, 45-62, pp. 59.


teaching - receive : Ps. 141:5; Pr. 4:12; Pr. 9:9; Pr. 10:8; Pr. 10:17; Pr. 12:1; Pr. 13:1; Pr. 13:18; Pr. 15:5; Pr. 15:10; Pr. 15:12; Pr. 15:31-32; Pr. 19:20; Pr. 19:27; Pr. 21:11; Pr. 23:12; 2Cor. 7:8-12
teaching - refused : Pr. 5:12-13; Pr. 9:7-8; Jer. 5:3; Jer. 7:28; Jer. 17:23; Jer. 32:33; Jer. 36:24

"Entertaining preaching, bright and cheery evangelistic addresses, are still listened to; but solid teaching is, with very rare exceptions, no longer tolerated." Ref-1325, p. 130.


teaching - refute false : correction - doctrinal
teaching - strange : doctrine - winds of
teaching - topical : preaching - topical
teaching - understanding : Ne. 8:7-9; Ne. 8:12-13
teaching - women : women - teaching
teaching - worship - equal time : worship - teaching - equal time
tear : tear - bottle
tear - bottle : Ps. 56:8
Technical Journal : Ref-0003
Technical Journal - Answers in Genesis. Creation Ex-nihilo Technical Journal : Ref-0003
Technical Journal - Answers in Genesis. Creation Ex-nihilo Technical Journal - Creation Ex-nihilo Technical Journal : Ref-0003
Technical Journal - Creation Ex-nihilo Technical Journal : Ref-0003
technology : technology - man’s ability
technology - man’s ability : Gen. 11:6

"On 18 February 1930 Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto. On 14 July 2015, Pluto was rediscovered through the New Horizons mission. . . . The New Horizons spacecraft travelled for nine years to reach Pluto. To reach such a distant object, New Horizons was launched from earth at a greater speed than any other spacecraft to ever leave earth's orbit. The spacecraft travelled at a speed of 15 km per second on its way to Pluto." Wayne Spencer, Rediscovering Pluto, 20151124151336.pdf, 3-5, p. 3.


teeth : phrases - common
teeth - skin of : phrases - common
teffilin : STaM - acronym
teffilin - STaM acronym : STaM - acronym
tefillin : phylactery
tefillin - mezuzot : phylactery
Tel Dan Stele : archaeology - Tel Dan Stele
Tel Dan Stele - archaeology : archaeology - Tel Dan Stele
television : television - witnesses viewed
television - witnesses viewed : Rev. 11:9

"The outstanding New Testament scholar, Robert Govett, wrote of this passage more than one hundred years ago (1864): “The word translated ‘look upon,’ ‘blepo,’ denotes not merely the nations seeing them, but their directing their eyes to this great sight and gazing upon them . . . ‘But how,’ it is asked, ‘is it conceivable that men all over the earth should be rejoicing at the news when only three days and a half intervene between their death and resurrection?’ . . . Is it not perfectly conceivable if the electric telegraph shall than have extended itself at the rate it has done of late years?” [Robert Govett: The Apocalypse Expounded by Scripture, London, 1929, pp. 246-247]." Ref-1163, p. 112. "Again, we read that the dead bodies of the witnesses are to lie unburied for three days and a half, (Rev. 11: 8-10,) that is, three and a half literal days, if the abridged scheme be correct. And then it is added, that “they of the people, and kindreds, and tongues, and nations, shall see their dead bodies, and shall not suffer them to be put in graves.” Now, is it possible, that within three days and a half, people of the different nations even of the prophetic earth should be able to come together to the street of the great city, and see these bodies lying? Or is it possible, that within that short space the intelligence of their death should be so universally diffused, that men should have time to congratulate each other, and send gifts one to the other in token of their common joy? We can hardly conceive this possible." Horatius Bonar, Chapter 10: “Distribution of Times and Events,” Prophetical Landmarks, 1847.


telos : life - purpose
telos - life purpose : life - purpose
Telushkin, Joseph, Jewish Literacy : Ref-1357
Telushkin, Joseph, Jewish Literacy - Jewish Literacy, Joseph Telushkin : Ref-1357
temper : anger - quick
temper - quick : anger - quick
temple : 9th - of Av ; abomination - desolation - temple ; Al Quds ; Antichrist - people of destroy Jerusalem and Sanctuary; ark of covenant - not used second temple ; ark of covenant - returned to temple ; chronology - 20200206152154 ; chronology - B.C. 0020 - Zerubbabel's Temple reconstructed by Herod ; chronology - B.C. 0020 - Zerubbabel’s Temple reconstructed by Herod ; chronology - B.C. 0063 - A.D. 0410 - Roman Empire over middle east ; chronology - B.C. 0168 - Antiochus Epiphanes IV desecrates temple ; chronology - B.C. 0432 - Sanballat builds temple - Newton ; chronology - B.C. 0515 - second temple completed - Gilbert ; chronology - B.C. 0515 - temple - second - dedicated - Newton ; chronology - B.C. 0516 - second temple completed - Couch? ; chronology - B.C. 0516 - second temple completed - Klassen ; chronology - B.C. 0516 - second temple completed - Levy ; chronology - B.C. 0520 - temple construction resumes ; chronology - B.C. 0531 - temple - second stalled - Steinmann ; chronology - B.C. 0532 (lyyar) - temple - second begun - Steinmann ; chronology - B.C. 0538 (Elul?) - temple altar built - Steinmann ; chronology - B.C. 0538 - second temple sacrifices resumed - Gilbert ; chronology - B.C. 0588 - Temple - Solomon’s destroyed - Newton ; chronology - B.C. 0592 - temple - glory departs - Jones ; chronology - B.C. 0960 - Solomon's Temple built - Price ; chronology - B.C. 0967 (Bul) - Solomon’s temple - construction ends ; chronology - B.C. 0967 (Ziv) - Solomon’s temple - construction begins ; chronology - B.C. 1012 - Solomon's Temple - foundation - Newton ; chronology - B.C. 1012 - Solomon's Temple dedicated - Jones ; David - temple - desire to build; hands - made without - temple; Holy Place; idols - in temple; Jerusalem - new - temple ; Levites - restricted - millennial temple; millennial kingdom - temple ; millennial kingdom - temple - atonement; millennial kingdom - temple - differences ; millennial kingdom - temple - literal ; millennial kingdom - temple - sin offering; mount - Moriah ; musicians - temple; name - God's dwells in temple; Paul - sacrifices in temple; Paul - temple - attitude toward ; prayer - toward temple; Ref-1000 ; Sabbath - work permitted in Temple ; sacrifice - location; sacrifice - missing ; sacrifice - second Temple stopped ; Samaritan - temple ; shekinah - comes to temple ; shekinah - departs temple ; tabernacle - brought into temple ; tabernacle - nations worship at ; temple - alone in; temple - anointed ; temple - believers worship at ; temple - boasting in; temple - body as ; temple - body of Christ vs. believer; temple - building delayed ; temple - built by Messiah ; temple - built in 7 years; temple - built in 46 years ; temple - built with forced labor; temple - child hidden in; temple - cleansed 1st time ; temple - cleansed 2nd time ; temple - collection for; temple - command to rebuild; temple - coronation in; temple - David can't build; temple - defiled; temple - den of thieves; temple - desecration by Gentile ; temple - desecration vs. defilement ; temple - desolate; temple - desolate - banners; temple - destroyed ; temple - destroyed - sign of Israel's apostasy; temple - disciples frequent ; temple - divine disfavor before destruction ; temple - dwelling of God; temple - earthly vs. heavenly ; temple - Eden vs. earthly vs. heavenly ; temple - Ezekiel's vs. John's ; temple - Father's house; temple - forsaken ; temple - God bigger than; temple - Hebrews - existing; temple - hidden in; temple - house of prayer; temple - images - decorative; temple - implements profaned; temple - Jesus taught openly in; temple - Levites relocate to serve; temple - location ; temple - Lord comes to; temple - missing - reason; temple - money for repair; temple - Muslims recognized ; temple - name in; temple - personal use of; temple - plans by Holy Spirit; temple - prostitutes ; temple - repair; temple - return of treasures prophecied; temple - sacrifice - location; temple - sacrifice future ; temple - sacrifice without ; temple - Samaritan ; temple - Solomon - date; temple - Solomon - dedication; temple - Solomon - location; temple - Solomon - size ; temple - Solomon to rebuild; temple - soreg ; temple - stores weapons; temple - throne within millennial; temple - treasures restored; temple - treasures stolen ; temple - treasures used for bribe; temple - tribulation ; temple - tribulation - Augustine of Hippo ; temple - vandalized; temple - vengeance of; temptation - pinnacle of temple ; tooling - Solomon's temple - offsite
temple - 2nd - empty when Pompey entered : chronology - B.C. 0063 - A.D. 0410 - Roman Empire over middle east
temple - 2nd had no ark : ark of covenant - not used second temple
temple - abomination in : abomination - desolation - temple
temple - alone in : Ex. 32:10; Lev. 16:17; Rev. 15:8; Rev. 16:17
temple - altar built - Steinmann : chronology - B.C. 0538 (Elul?) - temple altar built - Steinmann
temple - anointed : Dan. 9:24

"The Malbim says that this [to anoint the Most Holy] refers to ‘the Third Temple,’ since ‘it will be anointed.’ This statement reflects the contrast with the Second Temple, which the Mishnah records had not been anointed (Yoma 21b; compare Tosefta Sotah 13:2). The ‘anointing’ refers to the consecration of the chamber that housed the Ark of the Covenant, whose presence sanctified the Temple by virtue of the Shekinah (the divine presence). Since neither the Ark nor the Shekinah were present in the Second Temple (Yoma 21b) rabbinic tradition held that the Ark will be revealed in the future by the Messianic king, who will also build the Third Temple (Zechariah 6:12-13)." Ref-0146, p. 249.


temple - Antichrist destroys : Antichrist - people of destroy Jerusalem and Sanctuary
temple - Antiochus Epiphanes IV desecrates - date : chronology - B.C. 0168 - Antiochus Epiphanes IV desecrates temple
temple - ark of covenant returned : ark of covenant - returned to temple
temple - believers as : temple - body as
temple - believers worship at : Acts 2:46

✪ See Paul - temple - attitude toward.


temple - boasting in : Eze. 24:21; Mat. 24:2; Mark 13:2; Luke 19:41
temple - body as : Isa. 57:15 (?); Isa. 66:1-2 (?); Mat. 26:61; Mat. 27:40; Mark 14:58; Mark 15:29; Luke 2:46; John 2:19; John 4:20-21; 1Cor. 3:17; 1Cor. 6:19; 2Cor. 6:16; Eph. 2:21; 1Ti. 3:15; 1Pe. 2:5

✪ Questionable: Isa. 57:15 (?); Isa. 66:1-2 (?);


temple - body of Christ vs. believer : 1Cor. 3:16 (plural body); 1Cor. 6:19 (singular body)
temple - building delayed : Ezra 3:10-13; Ezra 4:1; Hag. 2:10-20

"Then follows a paragraph, Ezra 3:10-13, which needs careful scrutiny, for it is proleptic or anticipatory. The word “WHEN” at the beginning of verse 10 should be doubly underlined, and we should be careful to note that it is “WHEN” and not “THEN.” It tells us that when the builders laid the foundation of the House, viz. not now in the 2nd year of Cyrus, B.C. 535, but 15 years later on, in the 2nd year of Darius, B.C. 520 (see Haggai 2:10,15,18,20). Some “wept with a loud voice, and many shouted aloud for joy.” Then comes the explanation and the reason for this delay of 15 years, an explanation which occupies the whole of chapter 4." Ref-1299, p. 239.


temple - built by Messiah : 2S. 7:13; 1Chr. 17:12; Zec. 6:12-15; Mat. 26:61; Mat. 27:40; Mark 14:58; Mark 15:29; John 2:19-20

"The medieval rabbi Rashi declared that the Temple would descend directly from heaven after the coming of the Messiah. Maimonides also argued that only the Messiah could build the Temple. The prayer at the afternoon service on Tisha B'Av reflects this thinking: ‘For You, O Lord, did consume it [the Temple] with fire, and with fire You will in the future restore it." Ref-0144, p. 173


temple - built in 7 years : 1K. 6:37-38
temple - built in 46 years : John 2:20

"Several grammars list this [οἰκοδομηθη] as a constative aorist, to the effect that it should be translated, ‘this temple was built in forty-six years.’ The usual assumption is that ναος refers to the temple precincts. Josephus indicates that the temple precincts were not completed until Albinus’ procuratorship (c. 62-64 CE), in which case the precincts were still in the process of being built when the statement in John 2:20 was made. The idea would then be, ‘This temple has been in the process of being built for the last forty-six years.’ There are several problems with this, however, including the meaning of ναος in John, the use of the dative's temporal referent, and the use of the aorist. The force of the aorist may have some impact on the date of the crucifixion. First, the NT normally makes a distinction between ἱερον and the ναος: The ἱερον refers to the temple precincts (including the courts) while the ναος refers to the holy place or sanctuary proper. If that distinction obtains in John 2:20, then the aorist verb οἱκοδομηθη would refer only to the sanctuary. Notably, the sanctuary was completed in c. 18-17 BCE. Forty-six years later would be 29-30 CE. Second, the dative (τεσσερακοντα και εξ ετεσιν most naturally refers to a point in time, rather than an extent of time. This would fit will with a completion date of the sanctuary (‘was built [at a point in time] forty-six years ago’). Third, there is some difficulty with taking the aorist to speak of an action that was still in process (‘this temple has been [in the process of being] built for the past forty-six years’). The imperfect would be more natural, but not at all required. These strands of evidence suggest that the aorist is more naturally taken as consummative. If so, and if this periscope occurred in the first year of Jesus’ ministry (as its location in John 2 suggests), then Jesus was probably crucified three years later, in 33 CE." Ref-0129, pp. 560-561. "Herod began rebuilding the Temple in 19 B.C., and the work was dedicated ten years later, although detail work continued on it for the next 75 years." Ref-0144, p. 65. "Herod’s work on the temple in Jerusalem deserves special note. The structure erected by Zerubbabel was old, had been damaged in wars, and was too small for the crowds that flocked to the city during pilgrimage feasts. It was not in keeping with the new character Herod envisioned for the city. A thousand Levites were trained and dedicated to the task of rebuilding, which was begun about 20 or 19 B.C. The platform on the temple mount was expanded. The major structure was completed in about a year and a half; additional work continued until almost A.D. 70, when it was destroyed by the Romans. Its size and magnificence were renowned throughout the ancient world." Ref-1200, p. 96. "The Romans appointed over Judea a man named Antipater the Idumean or Edomite. (Idumeans were a non-Jewish Semitic group from the region between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba.) Following Antipater’s death, the Romans commissioned his son Herod to end further resistance from the Hasmonean rulers. In 37 or 36 B.C., Herod laid siege to Jerusalem and captured the Temple Mount, destroying a portion of the structure that stood in the way of his advance. . . . By the time of Herod, the second temple had suffered centuries of assault, repairs, and the general ravages of time. In making plans to reconstruct the temple, Herod had to follow the biblical design and legal requirements that governed the size of the building he could construct." Ref-1326, p. 66.


temple - built with forced labor : 1K. 9:20; 1Chr. 22:2
temple - child hidden in : 2Chr. 22:12
temple - church replaces? : temple - disciples frequent
temple - cleansed 1st time : Jer. 7:2; John 2:15

✪ See temple - cleansed 2nd time. ". . .if such a violent confrontation took place on the Temple Mount, it would have been considered not just a religious demonstration but a political threat, and would have brought an immediate arrest by either the Temple guards or the Roman authorities. Since this did not occur, the critics insist that this incident must be a later redactional insertion. However, this objection can be put to rest in light of the archaeological evidence. . . under the direction of Benjamin Mazar and Meir Ben-Dov (1968-1977). Their work has confirmed certain details in the Gospel account, such as the presence of large animals in the halls of the money changers (see John 2:14). They also have shown that a smaller Temple market was isolated inside the Royal Stoa (Hebrew, Chanuyot) and did not spread out over into the Court of the Gentiles. . . This location also is thought to approximate the position of the prophet Jeremiah ‘in the gate of the Lord's house’ (Jer. 7:2) when, during the First Temple times, he gave his ‘Temple sermon’ (Jer. 7:1-8:3)." Ref-0146, pp. 264-265.


temple - cleansed 2nd time : Mat. 21:12; Luke 19:45; Mark 11:15

temple - cleansed 1st time "The one came at the beginning of our Lord's ministry and revealed His zeal as the great Messianic prophet. The second came at the close of His ministry, and revealed His authority as the Messianic King." Ref-0183, p. 351. ". . . it is at least possible that Jesus cleansed the temple twice. Although this option is seldom taken seriously today except in a few very conservative circles, at least six factors support it. . . ." Ref-1282, p. 217


temple - collection for : Ex. 30:12-16; 2K. 12:4; 2Chr. 24:5
temple - command to rebuild : Ezra 1:2; Ezra 3:7; Ezra 4:3; Ezra 5:13; Eze. 6:3; Eze. 6:14
temple - construction resumes : chronology - B.C. 0520 - temple construction resumes
temple - coronation in : 2Chr. 23:11
temple - date second destroyed : 9th - of Av
temple - David can't build : 1Chr. 17:4; 1Chr. 22:8; 1Chr. 28:3
temple - David's desire to build : David - temple - desire to build
temple - defiled : Ps. 79:1; Eze. 7:22-24; Eze. 9:7
temple - den of thieves : Jer. 7:11; Mat. 21:13; Mark 11:17; Luke 19:46
temple - desecration by Gentile : Eze. 7:22; Eze. 44:7; Eze. 44:9; Acts 21:28

✪ An inscription recovered by archaeology between the outer and inner court read as follows: ‘No alien may enter within the barrier and wall around the temple. Whoever is caught is alone responsible for the death which follows.’ Ref-0100, Tape 19:B.


temple - desecration vs. defilement : Ezra 3:2-13

"Foreigners who enter the Temple generally bring about only desecration, not defilement, and for this reason the Second Temple could be rebuilt after its desecration and destruction by the Babylonians without requiring a purification ceremony (Ezra 3:2-13). However, the Second Temple later required purification (channukah, ‘dedication’) because an apostate Israelite priest sacrificed an unclean animal (a sow) on the altar (under orders of the Seleucid king Antiochus IV Epiphanes) and thereby brought defilement. In addition, the presence of idols or idolatrous practices is an ‘abomination’ (shiqqutz) that brings both desecration and defilement to the Temple and the Land, which has harbored such abominations." Ref-0146, p. 495.


temple - desolate : Jer. 22:5; Jer. 26:9; Eze. 35:15; Mat. 23:38; Luke 13:35
temple - desolate - banners : Ps. 74:3-4
temple - destroyed : 1K. 9:7-8; 2K. 25:9; 2Chr. 7:19-22; 2Chr. 36:19; Ps. 74:4-8; Ps. 79:1; Isa. 63:18; Isa. 64:11; Jer. 7:14; Lam. 2:6; Lam. 4:1; Eze. 7:22; Mic. 3:12; Mat. 24:2; Mark 13:2; Luke 19:41; Luke 21:6; Acts 6:14

"In the New Testament, the Greek word naos is used to refer to the inner part of the temple (the Holy of Holies) in distinction to the outer part of the temple (the temple precinct). This distinction is important for understanding Jesus’ pronouncement in Luke 21:6 about the buildings of the temple: “the days will come in which there will not be left one stone upon another which will not be torn down” (NASB). Since the retaining walls of the temple precinct remain standing ven today, how can it be said that “not one stone would be left that would not be torn down”? The answer is that Jesus was referring to the buildings of the naos (the temple proper) and not to those of the heiron (the outer precincts, which would include the retaining walls). All the buildings of the temple proper were indeed completely destroyed." Ref-1326, p. 15. "The Romans chopped down the trees in the area to form a huge bonfire around the temple. This caused the moisture in the temple’s limestone blocks to expand and blow the stones apart, collapsing the temple in a single day." Ref-1326, p. 99. "The Second Temple was destroyed by the Romans in A.D. 70 after four years or revolt against Roman tyranny (A.D. 66-70). The Romans breached the outer walls of Jerusalem in late May A.D. 70 and began to penetrate the city. On August 6, sacrifice ceased in the Jerusalem Temple. The porches of the Temple were burned on August 15-17. After a ram was raised against the inner wall, the sanctuary was entered and burned on the ninth of Ave, about August 28. This was the same day that the First Temple had been burned by the Babylonians (Josephus, War 6.250)." Ref-1383, p. 41.


temple - destroyed - sign of Israel's apostasy : 1K. 9:8-9
temple - disciples frequent : Luke 24:52-53

"Would not this seem a great incongruity if they understood that this Temple was to be replaced by themselves as the church?" Ref-0146, p. 272. ". . .the early Jewish church -- before the destruction of the Temple -- was indwelt, sealed, and filled with the Spirit and yet continued to worship in the Temple! This would imply that the Third Temple could be built during the church age and even sacrifices commenced without there being a necessary conflict with ‘spiritual worship.’" Ref-0146, p. 501.


temple - divine disfavor before destruction : Zec. 11:1

"Josephus (Jewish Wars 6:293-96) noted that at the time of the Passover c. A.D. 66, as the Roman siege was about to begin, the huge Nicanor gate that secured the inner court of the Eastern (Shushan) Gate was observed at the sixth hour to open of its own accord. This event was ultimately interpreted negatively as evidence of divine displeasure. . .This interpretation is also given in a story told in the Babylonian Talmud (Yoma 39b), along with another concerning the Temple service, which reflected the problem of divine favor: Our Rabbis taught: During the last forty years before the destruction of the Temple the lot ‘for the Lord’ did not come up in the right hand; nor did the crimson-colored string [suspended in the Temple to show the acceptance of the pascal sacrifice] become white; nor did the western-most light shine; and the doors of the Temple would open by themselves, until R. Yohanon b. Zakkai rebuked them, saying: ‘Temple, Temple why will you yourself be the alarmer? I know about you that you will be destroyed, for Zechariah b. Ido has already prophesied concerning you: ‘Open your door, O’ Lebanon, that the fire may devour your cedars’(Zec. 11:1)" Ref-0146, p. 82.


temple - dwelling of God : 1K. 8:27; Mat. 23:31
temple - earthly vs. heavenly :

✪ Chart, Ref-0146, p. 56.


temple - Eden vs. earthly vs. heavenly :

✪ Chart, Ref-0146, p. 197.


temple - Ezekiel's vs. John's : Eze. 3:1-3; Eze. 40:1-2; Rev. 1:9; Rev. 4:1-2; Rev. 10:9; Rev. 11:1-2

✪ Hitchcock offers the following comparisons between the what was shown Ezekiel (1) and what was shown John (2). "1. Ezekiel was an Old Testament prophet. 2. John was a New Testament prophet. 1. He ate a scroll (3:1-3). 2. He ate a book (10:9). 1. He was in exile in Babylon. 2. He was in exile on Patmos (1:9). 1. He had a version (40:2). 2. He had a vision (4:1-2). 1. He saw a temple that did not exist on earth at the time of the vision (Solomon's temple was destroyed twelve years earlier.) 2. He saw a temple that did not exist on earth at the time of the vision (the second Jewish temple was destroyed twenty-five years earlier). 1. An angel measured the temple as Ezekiel carefully observed. 2. John was commanded to measure the temple." Mark L. Hitchcock., A Critique of the Preterist View of the Temple in Revelation 11:1-2, Ref-0200, Vol. 164 No. 654 April-June 2007, 219:236, p. 235.


temple - Father's house : Luke 2:49; John 2:16
temple - forsaken : Jer. 12:7; Eze. 24:21

✪ See shekinah - departs temple.


Temple - foundation laid - Yamauchi : chronology - 20200206152154
temple - glory departs : shekinah - departs temple
temple - glory departs - Jones : chronology - B.C. 0592 - temple - glory departs - Jones
temple - God bigger than : Acts 17:24
temple - God's name in : name - God's dwells in temple
temple - Hebrews - existing : Heb. 8:4; Heb. 8:13; Heb. 9:6; Heb. 10:1-2; Heb. 13:10
temple - hidden in : 2K. 11:3
temple - holy of holies : Holy Place
temple - house of prayer : Isa. 56:7; Mat. 21:13
temple - idols in : idols - in temple
temple - images - decorative : 1K. 6:29; 1K. 6:32; 1K. 6:35; 1K. 7:29; 1K. 7:36
temple - implements profaned : 2Chr. 24:7; Dan. 5:23
temple - Islam : Al Quds
Temple - It’s Ministry and Services, The, Edersheim : Ref-1000
temple - Jesus taught openly in : Luke 4:15; Luke 22:53; John 7:26; John 8:2; John 8:20; John 18:20
temple - Levites relocate to serve : Deu. 18:6-8
temple - location :

"There is much discussion about where the Temple should be located on the Temple Mount. There major views are held by those who are researching this topic. 1) The Temple should stand in the area just north of the Dome of the Rock. Dr. Asher Kaufman is the leading advocate for this location. 2) The Temple belongs on the exact place where the Dome of the Rock sits. This view is held by many, the leaders of whom include Dan Bahar, head of the Israel Department of Antiquities, and Leen and Kathleen Ritmeyer. 3) The third view is that the Temple belongs to the area south of the Dome of the Rock, between the Dome and the el-Aksa Mosque. This view has been brought to prominence by Tuvia Sagiv, who has studied the Temple Mount thoroughly." Ref-1383, pp. 229-230.


temple - Lord comes to : Mal. 3:1
temple - made without hands : hands - made without - temple
temple - millennial : millennial kingdom - temple
temple - millennial - differences : millennial kingdom - temple - differences
temple - millennial - Levites restricted : Levites - restricted - millennial temple
temple - millennial kingdom - atonement : millennial kingdom - temple - atonement
temple - millennial kingdom - literal : millennial kingdom - temple - literal
temple - millennial kingdom - sin offering : millennial kingdom - temple - sin offering
temple - missing : sacrifice - missing
temple - missing - reason : 2Chr. 7:19
temple - money for repair : 2Chr. 34:9
temple - Mt. Moriah : mount - Moriah
temple - musicians : musicians - temple
temple - Muslims recognized :

"This site is one of the oldest in the world. Its sanctity dates from the earliest times. Its identity with the site of Solomon's Temple is beyond dispute." Guidebook issued by the Supreme Muslim Council of Jerusalem in 1930, Ref-0160, p. 259.


temple - name in : 1K. 8:20; 1K. 8:29; 1K. 8:48; 1K. 9:3
temple - nations worship at : tabernacle - nations worship at
temple - New Jerusalem : Jerusalem - new - temple
temple - Paul - attitude toward : Paul - temple - attitude toward
temple - Paul sacrifices in : Paul - sacrifices in temple
temple - personal use of : Ne. 13:5; Ne. 13:7
temple - pinnacle of - temptation : temptation - pinnacle of temple
temple - plans by Holy Spirit : Ex. 25:9; Ex. 25:40; Ex. 26:30; Ex. 27:8; Ex. 27:30; 1Chr. 28:11-12; 1Chr. 28:19; Acts 7:44; Heb. 8:5
temple - prayer toward : prayer - toward temple
temple - prostitutes : Deu. 23:17; 1K. 22:46; 2K. 23:7; Hos. 4:14

"[199] [1] The foulest Babylonian custom is that which compels every woman of the land to sit in the temple of Aphrodite and have intercourse with some stranger once in her life. Many women who are rich and proud and disdain to mingle with the rest, drive to the temple in covered carriages drawn by teams, and stand there with a great retinue of attendants. [2] But most sit down in the sacred plot of Aphrodite, with crowns of cord on their heads; there is a great multitude of women coming and going; passages marked by line run every way through the crowd, by which the men pass and make their choice. [3] Once a woman has taken her place there, she does not go away to her home before some stranger has cast money into her lap, and had intercourse with her outside the temple; but while he casts the money, he must say, “I invite you in the name of Mylitta” (that is the Assyrian name for Aphrodite). [4] It does not matter what sum the money is; the woman will never refuse, for that would be a sin, the money being by this act made sacred. So she follows the first man who casts it and rejects no one. After their intercourse, having discharged her sacred duty to the goddess, she goes away to her home; and thereafter there is no bribe however great that will get her. [5] So then the women that are fair and tall are soon free to depart, but the uncomely have long to wait because they cannot fulfill the law; for some of them remain for three years, or four. There is a custom like this in some parts of Cyprus." Herodotus, Histories (Medford, MA: Harvard University Press, 1920), 1.199.1-5


temple - reconstructed by Herod - date - Price : chronology - B.C. 0020 - Zerubbabel's Temple reconstructed by Herod
temple - reconstructed by Herod - date - Steinmann : chronology - B.C. 0020 - Zerubbabel’s Temple reconstructed by Herod
temple - repair : 2K. 12:5
temple - return of treasures prophecied : Isa. 52:11-12; Jer. 27:16 (- 28:6); Ezra 1:7-11
temple - sacrifice - location : sacrifice - location; Deu. 12:5; Deu. 12:11
temple - sacrifice future : Isa. 56:6-7; Isa. 60:7; Eze. 37:26-28; Jer. 33:18; Zec. 14:16-21

✪ See millennial kingdom - sacrifices. ". . . to the objection that a renewal of ‘expiatory’ animal sacrifices is unthinkable and would deny the complete efficacy of our Lord's atoning death, the reply is very simple: no animal sacrifice in the Bible has ever had an expiatory efficacy [Heb. 10:4]. . . These sacrifices were simply a ‘remembrance’ of the sins committed, and pointed forward to the one sacrifice which would take them away. [See the very able monograph, ‘The Question of Millennial Sacrifices,’ by John L. Mitchell, Bibliotheca Sacra, issues of July and October, 1953.]" Ref-0183, p. 250. ". . . it must not be forgotten that Ezekiel is not alone in this affirmation of a revival of a temple ritual in the coming Kingdom. As Reeve says, ‘The great prophets all speak of a sacrificial system in full vogue in the Messianic Age.’ [J. J. Reeve, ‘Sacrifice,’ I.S.B.E., op cit., Vol. IV, p. 2651.]" Ref-0183, p. 251.


temple - sacrifice without : Ezra 3:6; Hos. 3:4-5

"Just as sacrifices were offered after the destruction of the First Temple, so sacrifices were attempted after the destruction of the Second Temple. This is documented in the book Torat Habayit (‘Laws of the Temple’), which records in the name of the Kaftor VaPherach that more than 1,100 years after the destruction of the Second Temple Jews tried to offer sacrifices, even though at that time the control of the Temple Mount was in the hands of the Gentiles and there was no Temple there." Ref-0146, pp. 391-392.


temple - Samaritan : Samaritan - temple ; 2K. 17:24-30; Ne. 13:23-31; John 4:20

✪ Josephus records the Samaritan temple [on Mt. Gerizim] was destroyed by John Hyrcanus in 113 BC. Ruins are located beneath floor of 5th century Byzantine church of Mary Theotokos, which have been uncovered in excavations in 1920s. Menachem, a priest in the Jerusalem Temple, fell in love with Nikaso, the daughter of a Samaritan leader Sanballat. Menachem was told to choose between Nikaso and his priesthood. He chose Nikaso and Sanballat built his new son-in-law a rival temple on Mount Gerizim and made him high priest. Ref-0025, p. 188. ". . . in about 432 B.C. the daughter of Sanballat was married to the grandson of the high priest Eliashib. This resulted in the expulsion of the couple, and provided the historical incident for the break between the Jews and the Samaritans (cf. Ne. 13:23-31). During the conflict the Jews overstressed the foreign element in the ancestry of the Samaritans, and called them Cutheans after the name of the Middle-Babylonia city, Cuthah, from whence the Assyrians imported the foreign element into Samaria (cf. 2 Kings 17:24, 30). . . At that time a copy of the Torah may have been taken to Samaria and placed in the temple build on Mount Gerizim at Shechem (Nablus), where the rival worship and priesthood were established. . . .the Samaritan Pentateuch has illustrated the Jewish-Samaritan hostility quite effectively, as it emphasizes the importance of Mount Gerizim instead of Jerusalem, and inserts additional material into the text, for example after Exodus 20:2-17 and Deuteronomy 5:6-21." Ref-0075, pp. 498-500. "It [the Samaritan Pentateuch] also contains biased sectarian insertions, designed to show that Jehovah chose Mt. Gerizim rather than Zion, and Shechem rather than Jerusalem as His holy city." Ref-0001, p. 48. "A remnant of the ancient Samaritans still lives on Mt. Gerizim and they practice sacrifices there just as they did 2,700 years ago. . . . As fighting between the Ptolemies and Seleucids swirled around the country in the intertestamental period, physical decline again took place at Shechem. This decline culminated when the Jewish leader, John Hyrcanus, took advantage of the temporary absence of outside armies and destroyed the Samaritan temple on Mt. Gerizim (ca. 126 BC). He leveled the city in 107 BC. Shechem never recovered from this destruction and lay in ruins until identified by Tiersch in 1901. . . . [Photo of ] Mt. Gerizim (left peak) as seen from Jacob's well. WHen the Samaritan woman said to Jesus, “Our fathers worshipped on this mountain,” she was no doubt referring to the ruins of the Samaritan temple on top of Mt. Gerizim. The small structure on the peak marks the location of the ruins of the Samaritan temple that easily could have been seen from Jacob's well in Jesus’ day." David G. Hansen, Shechem: Its Archaeological and Contextual Significance, Ref-0066, Vol. 18 No. 2 (2005), pp. 40-41. "Some Jewish traditions associate the Samaritans’ building of a temple on Mount Gerizim with Nehemiah’s expulsion of Tobiah from the Jerusalem temple. Others ascribe the building of the Samaritan temple to the time of Alexander the Great . . ." Ref-1200, p. 77. "Hyrcanus destroyed the Samaritan temple on Mount Gerizim circa 108 [A.D.] and, later, the city of Samaria." Ref-1200, p. 85. "Because of strong disagreement with the Jews, the Samaritans built their own temple on Mt. Gerizim in Samaria which became their sanctuary. Archaeological excavations suggest that this temple was built in the fifth century B.C. Many years later, the Samaritan temple was destroyed by the Maccabean leader John Hyrcanus around 129 B.C. The discovery of the remains of the Samaritan temple have allowed archaeologists to confirm the design of the rebuilt temple in Jerusalem. The temple on Mt. Gerizim included gates, altars, and six-foot thick walls." Ref-1326, p. 61. "A leading NT authority eloquently described the Samaritan temple rising above Jesus and the woman at the well in John 4. The fact is that it was destroyed 150 years before by John Hyrcanus and never rebuilt." Paul Ferguson, Digging for the Historical Jesus Ref-0066, Vol. 26 No. 2 Spring 2013, 32-36, p. 33.


temple - Samaritan - build by Sanballat : chronology - B.C. 0432 - Sanballat builds temple - Newton
temple - second - completed - Couch? : chronology - B.C. 0516 - second temple completed - Couch?
temple - second - completed - date - Gilbert : chronology - B.C. 0515 - second temple completed - Gilbert
temple - second - completed - Klassen : chronology - B.C. 0516 - second temple completed - Klassen
temple - second - dedicated - Newton : chronology - B.C. 0515 - temple - second - dedicated - Newton
temple - second - reconstruction - Levy : chronology - B.C. 0516 - second temple completed - Levy
temple - second - sacrifice began - Gilbert : chronology - B.C. 0538 - second temple sacrifices resumed - Gilbert
temple - second - sacrifice stopped : sacrifice - second Temple stopped
temple - second begun - Steinmann : chronology - B.C. 0532 (lyyar) - temple - second begun - Steinmann
temple - second stalled - Steinmann : chronology - B.C. 0531 - temple - second stalled - Steinmann
temple - Shekinah comes : shekinah - comes to temple
temple - Solomon - date : 1K. 6:1; 1K. 6:38
temple - Solomon - dedication : 1K. 8:22
temple - Solomon - location : 2Chr. 3:1
temple - Solomon - size :

"The Temple that was built by Solomon was about twice the size of the tabernacle. It measured 90 feet long, 31 feet wide, and 45 feet high (1K 6:2)." Ref-1383, p. 36.


temple - Solomon to rebuild : 1Chr. 17:12; 1Chr. 28:3; 1Chr. 28:6; 2Chr. 6:9; Acts 7:47
temple - Solomon's - foundation - Newton : chronology - B.C. 1012 - Solomon's Temple - foundation - Newton
temple - Solomon's - tooled offsite : tooling - Solomon's temple - offsite
temple - Solomon's built - date - Price : chronology - B.C. 0960 - Solomon's Temple built - Price
temple - Solomon's dedicated - date - Jones : chronology - B.C. 1012 - Solomon's Temple dedicated - Jones
temple - Solomon’s - construction begins - date - Steinmann : chronology - B.C. 0967 (Ziv) - Solomon’s temple - construction begins
temple - Solomon’s - construction ends - date - Steinmann : chronology - B.C. 0967 (Bul) - Solomon’s temple - construction ends
Temple - Solomon’s destroyed - Newton : chronology - B.C. 0588 - Temple - Solomon’s destroyed - Newton
temple - soreg : Acts 21:27-28

"in the time of the Second Temple [the Jews] had erected a boundary fence, the Soreg, between the Court of the Gentiles and the Court of the Israelites, with a warning inscription promising death to any non-Israelite who passed beyond it into the Court of the Israelites. The New Testament (Acts 21:27-28) records a Jewish crowd's violent reaction to Paul when they mistakenly believed that he had taken a Gentile proselyte (Titus) into the Temple to offer sacrifice." Ref-0146, p. 484.


temple - stores weapons : 2S. 8:7; 1Chr. 18:7; 2Chr. 23:9
temple - tabernacle brought into : tabernacle - brought into temple
temple - throne within millennial : Isa. 16:5; Eze. 43:7; Zec. 6:11-15
temple - treasures restored : Jer. 27:22; Ezra 1:7; Ezra 6:5
temple - treasures stolen : 1K. 14:26; 2K. 14:14; 2K. 24:13; 2K. 25:13-17; 2Chr. 12:9; 2Chr. 25:24; 2Chr. 36:7; 2Chr. 36:10; 2Chr. 36:18; Jer. 27:18-22; Jer. 20:5; Jer. 28:3; Dan. 5:2-3; Dan. 5:23

"During the reign of the wicked King Rehoboam, the Temple was raided by Pharaoh Shishak (Sheshonk I, 945-924 B.C.) who took the Temple treasure, including the shields of god that Solomon had made (1K. 14:25-26)." Ref-1383, p. 37. "Both Kenneth Kitchen and Alan Millard have written articles proving that Solomon’s huge hoard of gold and silver was taken to Egypt by Shoshenq I [2Chr. 12:9]. . . . Shoshenq did besiege Jerusalem, but the Bible is very clear that he did not destroy it. He stationed his army around Jerusalem and threatened to destroy it, and by so doing he extorted . . . huge amounts of gold and silver from Rehoboam." Clyde Billington and Bretta Grabau, David’s Fortress at Khirbet Qeiyafa and Shoshenq’s Invasion, Ref-0066, 28.3 (2015), 60-70, p. 69. "Is Solomon’s wealth in gold exaggerated in the Bible? Both Kenneth Kitchen and Alan Millard argue that it is not. The Egyptian king Thutmose III (1504-1450 B.C.) and the Assyrian kings Tiglath-pileser III and Sargon II (ninth and eightth centuries B.C.) all had comparable or greater amounts of gold than that given in the Bible for Solomon [1K. 10:14,16-17,27]." Clyde Billington and Bretta Grabau, David’s Fortress at Khirbet Qeiyafa and Shoshenq’s Invasion, Ref-0066, 28.3 (2015), 60-70, p. 69.


temple - treasures used for bribe : 2Chr. 28:21
temple - tribulation : Isa. 66:1-6 (?); Dan. 9:27; Dan. 12:11; Zec. 1:16 (?); Mat. 23:38-39; Mat. 24:15; 2Th. 2:4; Rev. 11:1; Rev. 13:6 (?)

"Therefore, when he [the Antichrist] receives the kingdom, he orders the temple of God to be rebuilt for himself, which is in Jerusalem; who after coming into it, he shall sit as God. . ." Ephraim the Syrian, A.D. 373. Ref-0031, p. 113. Regarding Preterist assertion that this is Herod's temple, to be destroyed in 70 A.D., there are at least two problems with this view. Firstly, most scholars date the book of Revelation after that destruction and secondly, "It does not matter at all whether the temple is thought to still be standing in Jerusalem at the time that John sees the vision, since that would not necessarily have any bearing upon a vision. John is told by the angel accompanying him during the vision to ‘measure the temple’ (Rev. 11:1). Measure what temple? The temple in the vision. In fact, Ezekiel, during a similar vision of a temple (Eze. 40 - Eze. 48) was told to measure that temple. [Preterists] would agree, that when Ezekiel saw and was told to measure a temple, that there was not one standing in Jerusalem." Ref-0055, December 2000, p. 309. "When [Zec. 1:16] was written, the Second Temple was still standing so the reference can only be to the rebuilding of the Temple the Romans destroyed in 70 AD." Ref-0082, April 2001, 22. Matthew 23:38-39 would seem to imply that the house of the Jewish nation (the temple) is to be ‘left desolate’ for a period of time which comes to an end when the Jew repent and recognize Jesus as Messiah. "Now I have shown in the third book, that no one is termed God by the apostles when speaking for themselves, except Him who truly is God, the Father of our Lord, by whose directions the temple which is at Jerusalem was constructed for those purposes which I have already mentioned; in which [temple] the enemy shall sit, endeavouring to show himself as Christ, as the Lord also declares: “But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, which has been spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let him that readeth understand), then let those who are in Judea flee into the mountains; and he who is upon the house-top, let him not come down to take anything out of his house: for there shall then be great hardship, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, nor ever shall be.”" Irenaeus, Against Heresies, 5.25.2 Ref-0537, p. 553. "In a recent nationwide poll taken by the Knesset - Israel's legislative body, 49% of the body politic of Israel said they want to see the holy temple rebuilt on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem where there once stood two previous Jewish temples. . . . The Israeli public is about evenly split on whether they believe the temple will be rebuilt with a slight edge 42% - 39% to those who believe that the third temple will be rebuilt." Jimmy DeYoung, Almost Half of the Population of Israel Wants to See the Holy Temple Rebuilt in Jerusalem, Bible Prophecy Today, Monday, July 19, 2010 [http://www.bible-prophecy-today.com/2010/07/almost-half-of-population-of-israel.html] accessed 20100720. "Our modern expositors have been misled by this expression (used by Matthew) the holy place. They have assumed that it meant the holy of holies in the temple. But it does not mean that at all. Anyone, with the help of a concordance (as Young's or Strong's) or a Greek dictionary, can see for himself that the word used for place in Matthew 24:15 (Matthew 24:15) is topos, which means simply a locality (we derive from it the words topical, topography, etc.). It is used in expressions like a desert place, dry places. The holy land, Judea, is therefore the holy place, where the heathen armies, with their idolatrous standards and pagan sacrifices, were to stand." Ref-0896, p. 90. "My conversations with rabbis in Jerusalem today indicate that their present direction leads them toward building a Temple designed after the pattern last known to exist in Israel. This, of course, is Herod’s Temple. Rabbis have told me Jewish understanding maintains that God would not require those who are faithful to Him to follow something not fully understood. Since there is much in Ezekiel’s prophecy which cannot presently be understood from a Jewish perspective, God would not require Jews to build such a Temple. . . . Thus, it is my (John’s) opinion that the next Temple will not be the Temple prophesied by Ezekiel. Rather, it will be a Temple much more in line with Herod’s design, and function very similarly to it as well." Ref-1383, pp. 222-223. There is also the question of whether the millennial temple could be built prior to the topographical changes predicted for the millennium. "The Mishnah Tractate ‘Middoth’ In the Talmud rabbis are quoted who had seen the second temple with their own eyes and were very familiar with its furnishings, measurements and rituals. Especially important for our subject is the Mishnah Tractate ‘Middoth’ (= ‘measurements’) which is also one of the oldest parts of the Mishnah. The Tractate Middoth can be traced back to Rabbi Eli’ezer ben Ya’akov, who was familiar with the temple firsthand in the final years before its destruction. After the destruction of the second temple in AD 70, thought in Judaism turned immediately to its rebuilding. To preserve the knowledge as to how the third temple ought to be built, the exact measurements and construction of the second temple were committed to writing. The Tractate Middoth had the dignified distinction of being effectively the blueprint for the next temple. History took a completely different course to the one that the Jewish people had hoped for. Almost 2000 years elapsed and the sanctuary was never rebuilt. Today, there is still no third temple. Still, the Tractate Middoth did not have just a future-oriented significance. With its valuable information it helps us to go back to the past, in order to bring the world of the second temple to life once again in our thoughts." -- Roger Liebi, Discovering the Reliable Sources of Knowledge Regarding the Second Temple, Ariel Ministries Newsletter Vol. 1 No. 17, Winter 2015, 17-22, p. 17. [http://www.arielmagazine.org/pdf/mag-winter-2015.pdf] Questionable: Isa. 66:1-6 (?); Zec. 1:16 (?); Rev. 13:6 (?);


temple - tribulation - Augustine of Hippo : Dan. 9:27; Mat. 24:15; 2Th. 2:4; Rev. 11:1

✪ Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis (Augustine of Hippo) (A.D. 354-430): "There is, however, some uncertainty about the ‘temple’ in which he is to take his seat. Is it the ruins of the temple built by King Solomon, or actually in a church? For the apostle would not say ‘the temple of God’ if he meant the temple of some idol or demon." Augustine, ‘A Wise Caution,’ The City of God 20.19.2, in Peter Gorday, Colossians, 1-2 Thessalonians, 1-2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon (Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture NT 9. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 2000), 109. [CG 932-33*] cited by H. Wayne House, "The Understanding of the Church Fathers Regarding the Olivet Discourse and the Fall of Jerusalem", Pre-Trib Conference 2009, p. 2. [http://www.pre-trib.org/data/pdf/House-TheUnderstandingofth.pdf] accessed 20100217. See 2010021701.pdf .


temple - vandalized : 2Chr. 28:24
temple - vengeance of : Jer. 50:28; Jer. 51:11
temple - work permitted on Sabbath : Sabbath - work permitted in Temple
temple construction begins : chronology - B.C. 0536 - temple construction begins - Yamauchi
temple construction begins - Yamauchi : chronology - B.C. 0536 - temple construction begins - Yamauchi
temple construction resumes : chronology - B.C. 0520 - temple construction resumes - Newton ; chronology - B.C. 0520 - temple construction resumes - Yamauchi
temple construction resumes - Newton : chronology - B.C. 0520 - temple construction resumes - Newton
temple construction resumes - Yamauchi : chronology - B.C. 0520 - temple construction resumes - Yamauchi
Temple Mount : Temple Mount - 1967 war ; Temple Mount - purchased
Temple Mount - 1967 war :

"But in a surprising move, Israel turned the Temple Mount back to the custodial care of King Hussein of Jordan, leaving the very heart of Jerusalem in Gentile hands. In 1994, Yasser Arafat and his PLO took control." Ref-0017, Dec. 1999.


Temple Mount - purchased : 2S. 24:24; 1Chr. 21:24-26; 2Chr. 3:1
temple rebuilt : chronology - B.C. 0536 - temple rebuilt - Newton
temple rebuilt - Newton : chronology - B.C. 0536 - temple rebuilt - Newton
temple treasures : chronology - B.C. 0732 - temple treasures to Assyria
temple treasures - to Assyria : chronology - B.C. 0732 - temple treasures to Assyria
temples : temples - five
temples - five :

✪ (1) Solomon's. (2) Zerubbabel's on return from Babylon. (3) Herod's. (4) Antichrist's. (4) Millennium. This is often collapsed to only 4 since Herod's was a rebuilding and expansion of Zerubbabel's and the daily sacrifices continued during the reconstruction. 1. Solomon's Temple (1K. 5; 6; 7; 8) B.C. 960 - B.C. 586 (374 years) 2. Zerubbabel's and Herod's Temple (Ezra 3:7-; 4; 5; 6:1-18; Mat. 24:1-2; Mark 13:1-2; Luke 21:5-6) B.C. 515 - B.C. 20 (enlarged) - A.D. 70 (586 years) 3. Tribulation Temple (Dan. 9:24,27; 11:31; 12:11; Mat. 24:15; Mark 13:14; 2Th. 2:4; Rev. 11:1-2) 4. Millennial Temple (Eze. 40; 41; 42; 43:1-27; Isa. 2:2-3; 56:7). Built by Messiah (Zec. 6:12-15) Ref-0144, p. 53. "According to Josephus, Herod’s work in the Temple began in 20-19 B.C. (Antiquities 20.219). The sanctuary itself (naos) was completed in 18-17 B.C. after one and a half years of work (Antiquities 15.421). However, the work on the Temple precincts continued on for many years. Although Herod died in 4 B.C., the remodeling and refinements on the Temple area were not completed until around A.D. 62 (Antiquities 20.219)--eight years before it was destroyed by the Romans." Ref-1383, p. 39. "Because Herod the Great completely rebuilt Zerubbabel’s second temple and Titus then destroyed it in a.d. 70, no trace of this building remains. Kathleen Kenyon identified as the only visible remains of Zerubbabel’s construction a straight joint of stones with heavy bosses about 33 meters (108 feet) north of the southeast corner of the temple platform, which Maurice Dunand confirmed as similar to Persian masonry found in Phoenicia." Ref-1521, p. 159.


tempt : tempt - God doesn't
tempt - God doesn't : Jas. 1:13
temptation : prayer - to resist temptation ; temptation - alone unwise; temptation - pinnacle of temple ; temptation - wilderness; temptation - yielding to ; wealth - desiring
temptation - alone unwise : Gen. 39:11
temptation - pinnacle of temple : Dan. 9:27 (?); Mal. 3:1; Mat. 4:5; Luke 4:9; John 6:30

"Our Rabbis give this tradition: In the hour when King Messiah cometh, He standeth upon the roof of the Sanctuary." Ref-0021, p. 1:293. "For Jesus to leap unhurt from the place the Messiah was to appear would certainly identify Him as the King of Israel. John 6:30 shows the Jews anticipated the messiah would manifest Himself with such a sign as this. Therefore, the temptation takes on national significance. . ." Ref-0143, p. 76. In Matthew 4:5, pinnacle is τπερυγιον meaning a winglet whereas in Daniel 9:27, wing is from צנף meaning edge or extremity, a wing. Questionable: Dan. 9:27 (?);


temptation - resisting : prayer - to resist temptation
temptation - wealth : wealth - desiring
temptation - wilderness : Deu. 8:2; Mat. 4:1; Luke 4:1
temptation - yielding to : Num. 11:4; Num. 11:34

✪ See temptation - resisting.


tempted : Jesus - tempted ; tested - God by man
tempted - God by man : tested - God by man
tempted - Jesus : Jesus - tempted
tempting : tempting - self
tempting - self : Eze. 14:3-11
ten : chronology - B.C. 0728 - Salmanasser - ten tribes transplanted - Newton ; ten - double provision ; ten - horns
ten - double provision : Num. 14:22; 1S. 25:38; Job 1:2; Jer. 42:7 (?); Dan. 1:12; Dan. 1:14-15; Rev. 2:10

✪ See five - provision. Questionable: Jer. 42:7 (?);


ten - horns : Dan. 2:41; Dan. 7:7; Dan. 7:20; Dan. 7:24; Rev. 12:3; Rev. 13:1; Rev. 17:3; Rev. 17:7; Rev. 17:12; Rev. 17:16

"But this aforesaid Antichrist is to come when the times of the Roman empire shall have been fulfilled, and the end of the world is now drawing near. There shall rise up together ten kings of the Romans, reigning in different parts perhaps, but all about the same time; and after these an eleventh, the Antichrist, who by his magical craft shall seize upon the Roman power; and of the kings who reigned before him, three he shall humble, and the remaining seven he shall keep in subjection to himself." Cyril of Jerusalem, “The Catechetical Lectures of S. Cyril, Archbishop of Jerusalem”, Ref-0558, p. 107. ". . . the ten toes of the image are equivalent to (so many) democracies . . ." Ref-0541, Hippolytus Treatise on Christ and Antichrist, Ref-0541, p. 209. "And mystically by the toes of the feet he meant the kings who are to arise from among them; as Daniel also says (in the words), “I considered the beast, and lo there were ten horns behind it, among which shall rise another (horn), an offshoot, and shall pluck up by the roots the three (that were) before it.” And under this was signified none other than Antichrist, who is also himself to raise the kingdom of the Jews. He says that three horns are plucked up by the root by him, viz., the three kings of Egypt, and Libya, and Ethiopia, whom he cuts off in the array of battle." Ref-0541, Hippolytus Treatise on Christ and Antichrist, Ref-0541, p. 209.


ten - tribes transplanted - Newton : chronology - B.C. 0728 - Salmanasser - ten tribes transplanted - Newton
ten commandments : commandments - ten - NT references; commandments - ten - spoken; commandments - ten given ; commandments - ten in NT ; commandments - ten passing away; law - ten commandments - unique
ten commandments - given : commandments - ten given
ten commandments - in NT : commandments - ten in NT
ten commandments - NT references : commandments - ten - NT references
ten commandments - passing awaY : commandments - ten passing away
ten commandments - spoken : commandments - ten - spoken
ten commandments - unique : law - ten commandments - unique
ten tribes : Jeroboam - ten tribes - given; tribes - ten lost - Anglo-Israelism fiction ; tribes - ten not lost
ten tribes - Jeroboam - given : Jeroboam - ten tribes - given
ten tribes - lost - Anglo-Israelism fiction : tribes - ten lost - Anglo-Israelism fiction
ten tribes - not lost : tribes - ten not lost
ten virgins : parable - ten virgins
ten virgins - parable : parable - ten virgins
Tenakh : Tenakh - meaning
Tenakh - meaning :

✪ Jewish Old Testament. Same books, but different order (Genesis through 2 Chronicles). "For Jews the ‘book’ is the Hebrew Bible, comprising the Law, the Prophets, and the Writings (from the initials of these three divisions in Hebrew [Torah, Nevi'im, Ketubim] the Bible is often referred to among Jews as the TeNaKh)." Ref-0073, p. 19.


Tenney, Merrill C., Interpreting Revelation : Ref-1503
Tenney, Merrill C., Interpreting Revelation - Interpreting Revelation, Merrill C. Tenney : Ref-1503
Tense Voice Mood, Pierce, Larry. : Ref-0178
Tense Voice Mood, Pierce, Larry. - Pierce, Larry. Tense Voice Mood : Ref-0178
tenses : salvation - tenses
tenses - salvation : salvation - tenses
tent : tent - body as
tent - body as : Isa. 38:12; 2Cor. 5:1; 2Cor. 5:4; 2Pe. 1:13-14
tent of meeting : tabernacle - vs. tent of meeting
tent of meeting - vs. tabernacle : tabernacle - vs. tent of meeting
tenth day : Ex. 12:3; Lev. 16:29; Lev. 23:27; Lev. 25:9; Num. 7:66; Num. 29:7; Jos. 4:19; 2K. 25:1; Jer. 52:4; Jer. 52:12; Eze. 20:1; Eze. 24:1; Eze. 40:1
tenth day of Nisan : Ex. 12:3; Jos. 4:19; Eze. 40:1; Mat. 21:2; John 12:14
tents : exegesis - Gen._9:27
tents - Shem - God dwells : exegesis - Gen._9:27
Terah : difficulty - Terah - age when Abraham left Haran ; Terah - idol worshipper
Terah - age when Abraham left Haran - difficulty : difficulty - Terah - age when Abraham left Haran
Terah - idol worshipper : Gen. 12:1; Jos. 24:2; Jos. 24:15
teraphim : teraphim - earthen idols ; teraphim - stolen
teraphim - earthen idols : Gen. 31:19; Gen. 31:34; Gen. 31:35; Jdg. 17:5; Jdg. 18:14; Jdg. 18:17; Jdg. 18:18; Jdg. 18:20; 1S. 15:23; 1S. 19:13; 1S. 19:16; 2K. 23:24; Eze. 21:21; Hos. 3:4; Zec. 10:2

"A plausible motive for Rachel's theft of her father's teraphim (Gen. 31:19,34,35) is supplied by a Nuzi record of a case where a man was able in court to claim the estate of his father-in-law because he possessed the family teraphim (or household gods)." Ref-0001, p. 179, referring to C.H. Gordon in The Biblical Archaeologist 3 (1940) p. 5.


teraphim - stolen : Gen. 31:19; Gen. 31:34-35

"By the customs of Haran, possession of the house gods could signify legal title to an estate. Rachel knows that her father will not voluntarily give Jacob the images as formal proof of property release." Ref-0150, p. 45.


terebinth tree : terebinth tree - divination
terebinth tree - divination : Jdg. 9:37
term : elders - term
term - elders : elders - term
terminology : terminology - Christian - misused
terminology - Christian - misused :

"The benefit is to use Christian terminology in the West where it is most prevailing. It is strongly suggested that after and while studying the Course the students expand his/her horizon to other eastern thought systems and philosophies." A Course in Miracles, rear cover. "While there is no author clearly listed for the book, Helen Schucman in fact wrote down the book with the help of William Thetford, based on what she called an “inner voice” which she identified as Jesus. . . . Evangelical editor Elliot Miller says that Christian terminology employed in ACIM is “thoroughly redefined” to resemble New Age teachings." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Course_in_Miracles] accessed 20110418.


terms : tribulation - terms
terms - tribulation : tribulation - terms
terrorism : quote - terrorism - Christianity vs. Islam
terrorism - Christianity vs. Islam - quote : quote - terrorism - Christianity vs. Islam
Tertullian : chronology - B.C. 0004 - Jesus - born - Tertullian ; inerrancy - Tertullian ; millennial kingdom - Tertullian ; Trinity - first use
Tertullian - inerrancy : inerrancy - Tertullian
Tertullian - Jesus born - date : chronology - B.C. 0004 - Jesus - born - Tertullian
Tertullian - millennial kingdom : millennial kingdom - Tertullian
Tertullian - Trinity : Trinity - first use
test : adultery - testing; manna - test by God; prophecy - judge; test - all things
test - adultery : adultery - testing
test - all things : 1Th. 5:21

"No wise counselor would proscribe the perusal of controversies. Yet he who reads on different sides, must necessarily read much that is erroneous; and all tampering with falsehood, however necessary, is, like dealing with poisons, full of danger. If we might have our choice, it is better to converse with truth rather than error..." - J. W. Alexander, Thoughts On Preaching, 173. [http://drreluctant.wordpress.com/2011/04/09/conversing-with-truth-j-w-alexander/] accessed 20110418. "In New England the contest between modern fashion and Puritan authority was often literally a battle of the books. Harvard and Yale had both been committed to the principle of theological inoculation, exposing their students to modern authors, but in safe doses and in a controlled environment." Ref-1348, p. 139.


test - manna : manna - test by God
test - prophecy : prophecy - judge
testaments : prophet - expected
testaments - silence between : prophet - expected
tested : Joseph - tested by prophecy; tested - by God ; tested - by God - prophet; tested - by God - purpose; tested - God by man; tested - Jesus by Pharisees
tested - by God : Gen. 22:1; Ex. 15:25; Ex. 16:4; Ex. 20:20; Deu. 8:2; Deu. 8:16; Deu. 13:3; Jdg. 2:22; Jdg. 3:1; Jdg. 3:4; 2Chr. 32:31; Job 2:10; Job 7:17; Job 23:10; Ps. 11:4; Ps. 11:5; Ps. 66:10-12; Ps. 81:7; Ps. 105:19; Ps. 106:14; Pr. 17:3; Ecc. 3:18; Isa. 48:10; Jer. 12:3; Jer. 20:12; Luke 4:1; Luke 22:31; Jas. 1:12; Rev. 2:10

✪ God tests but does not tempt (Jas. 1:13).


tested - by God - prophet : 1K. 13:15-22
tested - by God - purpose : Deu. 8:2; Deu. 8:16-18
tested - God by man : Ex. 17:2; Num. 14:22; Num. 21:9; Deu. 6:16; Ps. 78:18-20; Ps. 78:41; Ps. 78:56; Ps. 95:9; Ps. 106:14; Isa. 7:12; Mal. 3:15; Mat. 4:7; Luke 4:12; Acts 5:9; 1Cor. 10:9; Heb. 3:9; Jas. 1:13
tested - Jesus by Pharisees : John 8:6
tested - Joseph by prophecy : Joseph - tested by prophecy
testifies : Holy Spirit - testifies of Jesus
testifies - Holy Spirit of Jesus : Holy Spirit - testifies of Jesus
testify : kings - testify before
testify - before kings : kings - testify before
testimonies : preaching - testimonies instead
testimonies - over preaching : preaching - testimonies instead
testimony : counsel - both sides; expert - bias of ; Paul - testimony of; resurrection - testifies; testimony - false; testimony - killed for; testimony - tabernacle ; testimony - tablets ; Ps. 119:88; Rev. 12:11
testimony - expert - suspect : expert - bias of
testimony - false : Ex. 20:16; Ex. 23:1-3
testimony - killed for : Acts 7:59; Rev. 6:9; Rev. 6:11; Rev. 12:11
testimony - one side insufficient : counsel - both sides
testimony - Paul's : Paul - testimony of
testimony - resurrection : resurrection - testifies
testimony - tabernacle : Ex. 25:16; Ex. 38:21; Num. 18:2; Deu. 31:26; Ps. 122:4; Acts 7:44; Rev. 15:5

✪ See testimony - tablets.


testimony - tablets : Ex. 24:12; Ex. 34:28; Ex. 40:20; Acts 7:44

✪ See testimony - tabernacle.


testimony of Jesus : prophecy - testimony of Jesus
testimony of Jesus - prophecy : prophecy - testimony of Jesus
testing : testing - purpose
testing - purpose : Ecc. 3:18
tetelestai : tetelestai - Greek
tetelestai - Greek : Ps. 22:31 (, Septuagint renders asah); John 19:30
tetragrammaton : YHWH
text types : manuscripts - Greek NT - text types
text types - Greek NT : manuscripts - Greek NT - text types
texts : Greek - texts - dates
texts - Greek - dates : Greek - texts - dates
Textual Aid to Systematic Theology, Louis Berkhof : Ref-0852
Textual Aid to Systematic Theology, Louis Berkhof - Berkhof, Louis, Textual Aid to Systematic Theology : Ref-0852
Textual Aid to Systematic Theology, Louis Berkhof - Berkhof, Louis, Textual Aid to Systematic Theology - Cross-0002 : Ref-0852
Textual Commentary On The Greek New Testament, A : Ref-0138
Textual Commentary On The Greek New Testament, A - A Textual Commentary On The Greek New Testament : Ref-0138
Textual Commentary On The Greek New Testament, A - A Textual Commentary On The Greek New Testament - Metzger, Bruce M. A Textual Commentary On The Greek New Testament : Ref-0138
Textual Commentary On The Greek New Testament, A - Metzger, Bruce M. A Textual Commentary On The Greek New Testament : Ref-0138
textual criticism : textual criticism - abuse ; textual criticism - canonical rules ; textual criticism - canonical rules - Matthew Henry ; textual criticism - form criticism ; textual criticism - higher criticism - problems ; textual criticism - restoration of text
textual criticism - abuse :

"Several difficulties unfortunately arise in the use of the traditional canons of textual criticism: 1. Students tend to ignore the likelys and probablys that pepper any discussion of these canons. One can never forget that such rules are only general principles of scribal proclivities and that therefore they can never be applied automatically. 2. Specific qualifications are necessary. We need to remember that the classic formulations of these canons, especially those by NT text critic Johann J. Griesbach, have been carefully nuanced. . . . At any rate, the fact that the canons of textual criticism are often misused leads some scholars to minimize their importance and even to suggest that they should be jettisoned. This would be a serious mistake. It is true that general probability does not tell us what a particular scribe will do in a particular passage, but that is no reason to neglect relevant data." Ref-0838, pp. 128-129.


textual criticism - canonical rules :

"Among the most important of these are to prefer: the shorter reading, the more difficult reading, the older reading, the reading with the best external MS support, the reading that best explains the rise of other readings, the reading that best suits the style of the author. . . . one can never apply these rules rigidly. Counteracting the tendency for scribes to add is the equally well-attested phenomenon of haplography or accidental omission. Likewise, a simpler reading in the versions may be preferred over an obviously corrupted reading in the MT. These modifications of the rules are valid for all types of literatures, but perhaps especially for the OT, given its unique transmission history and the care with which the Hebrew Scriptures were copied in comparison with Greco-Roman literature or even the NT." S. K. Soderlund, TEXT AND MSS OF THE NT, Ref-0385 pp. 4:805-814, p. 4:812-813. See former text for detailed explanations and examples of the various forms of scribal errors as they apply to the OT. "A scholar and textual critic, Johann Albrecht Bengal (ca. 1734) attempted a defense by establishing what he thought was a helpful rule for determining the original from among the variants. He said, "Proclivi scriptioni praestat ardua" or "the more difficult reading is preferable to the easier one." Unfortunately, this rule has remained popular until today among New Testament textual critics; it presupposes that divine inspiration tended toward obscurantism in the originals, and, that copyists, with little sense of duty towards verbal preservation, made changes that would clarify the meaning to their liking. Such presuppositions, as previously noted, are theologically unsound and historically unsustainable." Ref-0785, Volume 15 Number 46, December 2011, Brian H. Wagner, New Testament Criticism: Helps and Hurts, 37-60, p. 47


textual criticism - canonical rules - Matthew Henry : 1Jn. 5:7-8

"It was far more easy for a transcriber, by turning away his eye, or by the obscurity of a copy, it being obliterated or defaced on the top or bottom of the page, or worn away in such materials as the ancients had to write upon, to lose and omit the page, than for an interpolator to devise and insert it. He must be very bold and impudent who could hope to escape detection and shame; and profane too, who durst venture to make an addition to a supposed sacred book. . ." G.W. Anderson and D.E. Anderson, Why 1 John 5:7-8 is in The Bible, Ref-0094, p. 2 quoting Matthew Henry, Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible, VI.1090-91 "the critics are wedded to the idea that the shorter readings must nearly always be the originals. Having suffered at the hands or finger of various typists, I cannot accept this criterion. They more often omit words and phrases than make additions." Ref-0154, p. 23.


textual criticism - form criticism :

"Efforts to salvage the real words of Jesus trapped under layers of extraneous material in the Gospels are called “form criticism.”" Paul Ferguson, Digging for the Historical Jesus Ref-0066, Vol. 26 No. 2 Spring 2013, 32-36, p. 32.


textual criticism - higher criticism - problems :

". . . Higher Criticism is a mere travesty of all true criticism. Secular writers are presumed to be trustworthy unless reason is found to discredit their testimony. But the Higher Criticism stars with the assumption that everything in Scripture needs to be confirmed by external evidence. It reeks of its evil origin in German infidelity. My indictment of it, therefore, is not that it is criticism, but that it is criticism of a low and spurious type, . . . True criticism seeks to elucidate the truth: the Higher Criticism aims at establishing prejudged results." Ref-0745, pp. xi-xii. "What the dissecting-room is to the physician criticism is to the theologian. In its proper sphere it is most valuable; and it has made large additions to our knowledge of the Bible. But it demands not only skill and care, but reverence; and if these be wanting, it cannot fail to be mischievous." Ref-0745, p. 3. "The Higher Criticism, as a rationalistic crusade, has set itself to account for the Bible on natural principles; . . ." Ref-0745, p. 11. "As Hodges boldly stated: ‘It would scarcely be worth-while [sic] in the present discussion to become mired in the ever shifting morass of theories which occupy present-day source criticism. New Testament studies are not advanced by an infatuation with processes we did not witness and with documents we do not, and cannot, possess." Jack Russell Shaffer, "A Harmonization of Matt 8:5-13 and Luke 7:1-10", Ref-0167 Volume 17 Number 1, Spring 2006, 35:50, p. 42.


textual criticism - restoration of text :

"The traditional fundamental belief in “Preservation” of Scripture was soon replaced by the doctrine of “Restoration”. That is, the bizarre notion that over the years some of the true text had become corrupted resulting in the lass of a small yet significant portion of the original readings. The opinion among scholars of the upper echelon was that they could take the numerous extant manuscripts and ancient versions and, by applying the supposed “scientific” techniques and methods of “lower” or textual criticism, restore to the Church and the world at large the original wording. But God had often promised to preserve His Word. It was never implicit in these many promises that He would miraculously preserve the original stones, scrolls, or manuscripts upon which the prophets and apostles wrote. All that was necessary was that the text itself be preserved. This, we aver and asseverate, He has done -- not be a continuing miracle but as the late conservative text critic Edward F. Hills correctly advocated, by providentially preserving it over the centuries thus fulfilling the aforementioned promises. . . . The Roman Catholic structure has long played down the accuracy and faithfulness of God's Word and will continue to do so in order to maintain its dominion over the laity through its pope and priesthood. This ungodly dominion has been historically facilitated in great measure by the practice of using a language no longer familiar to the people in which to conduct the service. Tragically, the Protestant churchmen are rapidly, and often unknowingly, succumbing to the same snare, enmeshing their flocks and going about establishing their own personal control over the faith of the people by a constant overemphasis of Hebrew and/or Greek. Again, that which is being said is that the laity, not knowing the language of the pastor/scholar and having no reliable written witness as his guide simply cannot correctly understand or approach the Deity for himself and must depend upon some other man or religious organization to do this for him. Did the Reformers suffer and perish in vain?" Ref-0186, p. 166. It must be said that the aforementioned quote by Jones is an unfair representation of the beliefs of those who advocate studying the Hebrew and Greek. For one, they do not maintain that the various excellent English translations currently available (including the KJV) are so flawed that one cannot “correctly understand or approach the Deity for himself.” For another, it is as if Jones would have us ignore the very fact that a prime motivating factor for the Reformation, and especially underwriting the development of scriptures in the vernacular, such as the KJV, was Erasmus' publication of the Greek New Testament. It was by leaving the previous Latin and returning to the original Greek that the Reformers were able to shed long-held doctrinal errors (e.g., “penance” vs. “repentance”) and bring much-needed correction the Roman understanding of the Scriptures which then held sway. For another, those Reformers which preferred English generally used the Geneva Bible, not the KJV which didn't exist until later. And even when it had been published, it took a considerable number of years for the KJV to unseat the Geneva Bible in popularity in the English-speaking world. During this time, were the Reformers (such as Knox) without the Word of God -- awaiting for the 1611 KJV and holding on with a flawed version until then? Most certainly not. This over-simplistic view of the ascendancy of the 1611 KJV is a gross misrepresentation of the reality of how Scripture came down to us. To equate a desire to give priority to the Hebrew and Greek with the Roman Catholic insistence of retaining the old Latin is both inaccurate and unfair.


Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible, Emmanuel Tov : Ref-0954
Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible, Emmanuel Tov - Tov, Emmanuel, Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible : Ref-0954
textual preservation : inerrancy - Masoretic textual techniques
textual preservation - Masoretes : inerrancy - Masoretic textual techniques
Textus Receptus : manuscript - Textus Receptus - origin ; manuscript - Textus Receptus verses not in Critical Text
Textus Receptus - origin : manuscript - Textus Receptus - origin
Textus Receptus - verses not in Critical Text : manuscript - Textus Receptus verses not in Critical Text

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