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How can biblical exegesis be fruitful and meaningful when commentaries and lexicons provide contradictory interpretations, seeming to support opposing translations? An Exegetical Summary of Matthew 1–16 asks important exegetical and interpretive questions phrase by phrase, summarizing and organizing content from every major Bible commentary and dozens of lexicons. You can instantly identify...

d. πρό (LN 67.17) (BAGD 2. p. 702): ‘before’ [BAGD, BNTC, CC, LN, NICNT, NIGTC, NTC, PNTC, WBC; all versions except NLT], ‘even before’ [BECNT; NLT]. This preposition describes a point of time prior to another point of time [LN]. e. aorist act. infin. of αἰτέω (LN 33.163) (BAGD p. 25): ‘to ask’ [BAGD; all translations], ‘to ask for’ [BAGD, LN], ‘to demand, to plead for’ [LN]. This verb means to ask for something with urgency, even to the point of demanding [LN]. QUESTION—What relationship is indicated
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