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For years, Vine’s Expository Dictionary has been the standard word study tool for pastors and laypeople, selling millions of copies. But sixty-plus years of scholarship has shed extensive new light on the use of biblical Greek and Hebrew, creating the need for a new, more accurate, more thorough dictionary of Bible words. William Mounce, whose Greek grammar has been used by more than 100,000...

sins.” In conjunction with Isa 61:1, Lk 4:18 uses aphesis in the sense of release, which contextually is also the forgiveness of sins. In Eph 1:7; Col 1:14, Paul defines redemption as specifically related to “the forgiveness of sins.” Similarly, Matthew, in the context of the Lord’s Supper (Mt 26:28), speaks of “the forgiveness of sins” as the result of the pouring out of Jesus’ blood for many. In Peter’s preaching on Pentecost, he proclaimed “forgiveness of your sins” in the name of Jesus Christ