Foster's Theological Reflections

I used to read many books about God and time. These scattered thoughts were developed from those studies: Notes on Divine Temporality Ad...

Ps. 110:1 contains a Messianic use of the word "Lord" (ADHON) and this passage clearly distinguishes between THE LORD (YHWH) and ...

καὶ οἱ δώδεκα πυλῶνες δώδεκα μαργαρῖται· ἀνὰ εἷς ἕκαστος τῶν πυλώνων ἦν ἐξ ἑνὸς μαργαρίτου. καὶ ἡ πλατεῖα τῆς πόλεως χρυσίον καθαρὸν ὡς ὕαλο...

Jude 14-15 does not have reference to the "saints" (Jesus' bride): it is a text that refers to the holy angels who accompany G...

Please take this post with a heaping grain of salt ( cum grano salis ). In order for anyone to "accept Jesus as [his or her] Savior...

There are some contexts in which εἰς can be rendered "for," but how we translate this Greek preposition may depend on the aspect/A...

The evidence from the Gospels culminates in the baptismal commission of Matthew 28:20. It is manifest from the narratives of the Evangelists...

Alford's Comments for 2 Pet 1:1: Next, as to the words τοῦ θεοῦ ἡμῶν καὶ σωτῆρος Ἰησοῦ χριστοῦ. Undoubtedly, as in Titus 2:13, in stri...

Thinking about friends and family in Florida and other southeastern states. Be safe: my love and prayers are with you.

Here is an email I once wrote to a friend: Offerebantur is a form of offero ("I offer" or "I present," "bring bef...

I have written some on MORFH in Phil. 2:6ff. There is a reference from Tobit 1:13 which supports the denotation "status" or "...

Zerwick writes: "The repetition of the article distinguishes two coordinated notions, while on the contrary the use of but one articl...

The text reads: DI' hWN TA TIMIA KAI MEGISTA hHMIN EPAGGELMATA DEDWRHTAI hINA DIA TOUTWN GENHSQE QEIAS KOINWNOI FUSEWS APOFUGONTES THS E...

A Discussion of "Imperial Pretensions and the Throne-Vision of the Lamb: Observations on the Function of Revelation 5" J. Daryl ...

ὃν ὁ θεὸς ἀνέστησεν λύσας τὰς ὠδῖνας τοῦ θανάτου, καθότι οὐκ ἦν δυνατὸν κρατεῖσθαι αὐτὸν ὑπ' αὐτοῦ· I would say that the antecedent of...

"That saw the troubled sea, and shivering fled, And sought to hide his froth-becurlèd head Low in the earth; Jordan's clear str...

In Jn. 20:28, Thomas possibly calls Jesus Lord and God while not equating him with YHWH (Ps. 8:5-6; 82:1-6). Jesus had already been identi...

I believe the Governing Body has suggested "together with them" in 1 Thessalonians 4:17 means that the living are raised during th...

Henry Barclay Swete provides an extensive quote from church father Hippolytus' Contra Noetum 8. He then writes: "It must be conf...

Something old from my files on Lord and other terms: KURIOS and QEOS are not synonyms. Therefore, its possible for God to be Lord and yet ...