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The Theological Lexicon of the New Testament, written by the premier biblical exegete Ceslas Spicq, takes its place alongside other standard language tools for New Testament studies. This singular 3-volume set, translated into English by James D. Ernest, combines Spicq’s command of lexicography with a theological approach to New Testament studies. Spicq’s intention is self-consciously...

The emotions are located in the entrails—since they are what is most intimate and hidden (Post. Cain 118; cf. Josephus, War 4.263)—which are therefore synonymous with what we today call the “heart”: “I suffer in my stomach and in my entrails” (tēn koilian mou kai ta splanchna mou ponō, Pss. Sol. 2.15); “Abraham, moved to the depths of his entrails, began to weep” (T. Abr. A 3, 5); “The consumption reaches to the entrails, causing through its oppression despair and distress.”6 When Aseneth falls
Volume 3, Pages 274–275