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Overview of statement Organization

• Introduction—covers matters referring to the complete e-book, together with context, date, authorship, composition, interpretive matters, function, and theology.
• Each portion of the remark includes:
• Pericope Bibliography—a beneficial source containing an important works that pertain to every specific pericope.
• Translation—the author’s personal translation of the biblical textual content, reflecting the result of exegesis and getting to Hebrew and Greek idiomatic utilization of phrases, words, and tenses, but in kind of sturdy English.
• Notes—the author’s notes to the interpretation that tackle any textual versions, grammatical types, syntactical buildings, simple meanings of phrases, and difficulties of translation.
• Form/Structure/Setting—a dialogue of redaction, style, assets, and culture as they hindrance the starting place of the pericope, its canonical shape, and its relation to the biblical and extra-biblical contexts in an effort to light up the constitution and personality of the pericope. Rhetorical or compositional positive aspects vital to figuring out the passage also are brought here.
• Comment—verse-by-verse interpretation of the textual content and discussion with different interpreters, attractive with present opinion and scholarly research.
• Explanation—brings jointly all of the result of the dialogue in earlier sections to reveal the that means and purpose of the textual content at numerous degrees: (1) in the context of the ebook itself; (2) its which means within the OT or NT; (3) its position within the whole canon; (4) theological relevance to broader OT or NT issues.

General Bibliography—occurring on the finish of every quantity, this wide bibliography includes all resources used anyplace within the commentary.