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This commentary series is established on the presupposition that the theological character of the New Testament documents calls for exegesis that is sensitive to theological themes as well as to the details of the historical, linguistic, and textual context. Such thorough exegetical work lies at the heart of these volumes, which contain detailed verse-by-verse commentary preceded by general...

1 Ki. 1:1; Hg. 1:6; and Jb. 31:20 LXX) and well filled with food (χορτάζω means “to satisfy hunger” in Koine Greek as opposed to its use for animals or animallike men alone in classical Greek). While the form could be either middle or passive (Mayor, 97–98, and Adamson, 123, argue for the latter, yet a middle sense appears to be the normal case in both verbs in biblical Greek), Dibelius, 153, is correct that such a question makes little difference, for the point is that the Christians fail to give
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