![]() ![]() It is the sentence … which is the linguistic bearer of the usual theological statement, and not the word (the lexical unit) or the morphological and syntactical connection. James Barr so painstakingly pointed this out over fifty years ago: Yet the value of words lies not in their ability to create, in isolation, a new theological understanding, but rather in the fact that they contribute to sentences which then, in turn, alter our theological perception. Quite often preachers of God’s Word put too heavy a load on biblical words, expecting them to carry a major point of their sermon all on their own. A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing, especially when it comes to biblical words in the original Hebrew and Greek. ![]()
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