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Gentry writes, “The biggest part of the message of the biblical prophets has nothing to do with predicting distant future events.”…
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Parallel Lines
Peter Gentry, How to Read and Understand the Biblical Prophets
Hebrew poetry is based upon placing lines in parallel pairs. The word pair becomes an idiom expressing a single thought that is both more precise and more expansive than either line alone. Readers who treat each line as an independent proposition often miss the way the pair works together. Form serves meaning.
How you’d preach it
Understanding Hebrew poetry helps us read the prophets and psalms more accurately.
- Faith
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