Irony of the Day
This is from Cotterell & Turner’s Linguistics & Biblical Interpretation, 60: “And yet again we are, in fact, dealing with the question of linguistic competence . Assuming…that Lessing had a clear intention, but that his text did not fulfil that intention, we must further assume that had he carefully considered his text he could have […]
Simon the Amazed & the “ends of the earth” – Acts 8
Acts 8:4-40With the persecution of the church, the Christians scattered. Philip went down to Samaria…an interesting phrase since Samaria is to the North. Luke uses this phrase because Samaria sits geographically below Jerusalem so you literally go down to Samaria. Then Luke sets Philip and Simon the Sorcerer side by side. SimonIn SamariaDrew CrowdsPerformed MagicBrought […]