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How can the task of biblical exegesis be fruitful and meaningful when commentaries and lexicons provide contradictory interpretations and seem to support opposing translations? The 24-volume Exegetical Summaries Series asks important exegetical and interpretive questions—phrase-by-phrase—and summarizes and organizes the content from every major Bible commentary and dozens of lexicons. You can...

QUESTION—What is indicated by the use of the perfect tense ἐνέστηκεν ‘is come’? 1. The perfect tense indicates that the Day is already present [Alf, Ea, EBC, EGT, El, Er, Fn, Hb, HNTC, ICC, Lns, Mn, NCBC, NIC, TH, WBC, Wd; all versions except KJV]: the day has come and is here. 2. It means that the Day is imminent [Rb; KJV]: the day is at hand. When it is intransitive in this tense, it means that it is near [Rb]. QUESTION—What is meant by ‘the Day of the Lord’? 1. It means a period of time [Ea,
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