epistles
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Pentecost • Acts 2:1–21 • May 19, 2013
By William Carr What in the world is going on? English versions seem so pedestrian, e.g., “When the day of Pentecost arrived” (ESV) or, simply,…
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Easter 7 • Revelation 22:1–6 (7–11) 12–20 • May 12, 2013
By Gerhard Bode Introduction In 1563, Lutheran theologian David Chytraeus (1530–1600) wrote a commentary on the book of Revelation in which he calculated the date…
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Easter 6 • Revelation 21:9–14, 21–27 • May 5, 2013
By Wally Becker After celebrating the resurrection of our Lord these past five weeks, the reading from Revelation helps us focus on our own resurrection…
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Easter 5 • Revelation 21:1–7 • April 28, 2013
By Charles Arand The last chapters of Revelation provide a fitting bookend to the first two chapters of Genesis. It moves from the first creation…
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Easter 4 • Revelation 7:9–17 • April 21, 2013
By Robert Rosin Behold the Host Apocalyptic literature is not confined to Christianity, of course. So with a text from the Apocalypse or Revelation of…
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Easter 3 • Revelation 5:1–14 • April 14, 2013
By Victor Raj Preliminary Considerations For a serious study of our text there is no better place to turn than Professor Louis Brighton’s commentary Revelation.[1]…
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Easter 2 • Revelation 1:4–18 • April 7, 2013
Textual Considerations The number seven (ἑπτὰ) has been understood to denote completeness. Interpreters differ, however, as to whether the “seven spirits” in verse 4 signify…
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Easter Sunday • 1 Corinthians 15:19–26 • March 31, 2013
By Tom Manteufel From time to time novels have appeared which depict the ramifications of the discovery of alleged archeological evidence that the bodily resurrection…
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Palm Sunday • Philippians 2:5–11 • March 24, 2013
By Paul R. Raabe The epistle lesson for the Sixth Sunday in Lent/Palm Sunday (series C) is the famous Carmen Christi of Philippians 2:5–11. Because…