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Amphibiloga (Endnotes)

1. E. W. Bullinger, Figures Of Speech Used In The Bible (Baker Book House, Grand Rapids, MI, reprinted 1968). Close

2. Michael Agnes, editor in chief. Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th edition, “(Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio, 2006). Close

3. The Massoretic vowel pointings that make the “V” into an “o” or “u” were not invented until many years after the New Testament era. Before that, Hebrew was “unpointed,” and thus what we now know as arom (naked) and arum (crafty) were then spelled the same. Close

4. For an excellent discussion of that, see R. C. H. Lenski, The Interpretation of St. Paul’s Epistles to the Galatians, Ephesians, and Philippians (Augsburg Publishing House, Minneapolis, reprinted 1961) pp. 868-872. Close