for understanding and interpreting poetry is different from that used for letters, which is different again from that used for prophecy, and so on.8 Nevertheless, in preparing a first-person expository sermon, the following three exegetical tasks are important to the exegesis of any biblical genre. The first task in exegesis is to determine the main idea of the text. Frequently, the main thrust of the text does not emerge until after you have overturned all the exegetical
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