"The whole Gospel is 'demand' insofar as it expresses God's sovereign will concerning us. His sole demand is, however, in reality only this: that we must accept His gift."
Arnold T. Ohrn, The Gospel and the Sermon on the Mount (New Your: Fleming H. Revell, 1948), 23.
Aug 2, 2014
Aug 1, 2014
Characters in Acts
Many
readers of Acts know that the character of Paul dominates the book. But
Sean Adams has put some mathematical quantification to that
observation. It is also interesting to see how other characters in Acts fare as can be seen in Adams' table below.
Sean Adams, The Genre of Acts and Collected Bibliography, SNTSMS 156 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), 130-31.
Character
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Verses
|
Words/episode
|
Total of words
|
Percentage
|
Jesus
|
1.1–9
|
166
|
166
|
0.9%
|
Disciples (general)
|
1.10–14
|
118
|
||
1.23–2.13
|
255
|
|||
6.1–7
|
138
|
|||
15.5–34
|
480
|
991
|
5.4%
|
|
‘Believers’
|
2.41–7
|
117
|
||
4.24–35
|
251
|
368
|
2.0%
|
|
Apostles and Peter
|
5.12–42
|
566
|
566
|
3.1%
|
Peter with disciples
|
1.15–22
|
160
|
||
2.14–40
|
525
|
|||
5.1–11
|
206
|
891
|
4.8%
|
|
Peter with John
|
3.1–4.23
|
908
|
||
8.14–25
|
199
|
1,107
|
6.0%
|
|
Peter alone
|
9.32–11.18
|
1,373
|
||
12.3–19
|
372
|
1,745
|
9.5%
|
|
[15.7–11=98]
|
||||
Barnabas
|
4.36–7
|
31
|
||
11.19–26
|
153
|
184
|
1.0%
|
|
Stephen
|
6.8–8.3
|
1,326
|
1,326
|
7.2%
|
Philip
|
8.4–13,26–40
|
433
|
433
|
2.3%
|
Ananias
|
9.10–17
|
169
|
169
|
0.9%
|
Saul/Paul alone
|
9.1–9
|
144
|
||
9.18–35
|
251
|
|||
17.16–18.23
|
779
|
|||
19.1–20.3
|
809
|
|||
20.18–38
|
373
|
|||
21.26–26.32
|
3,154
|
|||
27.17–31
|
306
|
5,816
|
32.1%
|
|
Paul and Barnabas
|
11.27–30?
|
64
|
||
12.24–15.4
|
1,533
|
|||
[15.12=23]
|
||||
15.35–41
|
112
|
1,709
|
9.3%
|
|
Paul and Silas/’we’
|
16.1–17.15
|
1,023
|
||
20.4–17
|
251
|
|||
21.1–17
|
309
|
|||
27.1–28–28.16
|
1,046
|
2,629
|
14.2%
|
|
Paul and James
|
21.18–25
|
153
|
153
|
0.8%
|
James (disciple)
|
12.1–2?
|
24
|
24
|
0.1%
|
James (brother)
|
15.13–21
|
130
|
130
|
.07%
|
Herod
|
12.20–3
|
74
|
74
|
0.4%
|
Apollos, Priscilla, and Aquila
|
18.24–8
|
103
|
103
|
0.6%
|
Sean Adams, The Genre of Acts and Collected Bibliography, SNTSMS 156 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), 130-31.
Jul 31, 2014
Proverbs on Work and Laziness-Part 3
This is the final part of a three-part series on proverbs related to work and
laziness.
Proverbs on Work and Laziness
Proverbs on Work and Laziness
|
Verse(s)
|
Text
(NASB)
|
Type
|
Parallelism
|
|
12:11
|
He
who tills his land will have plenty of bread,
But
he who pursues vain things lacks sense.
|
Didactic
|
Antithetic
|
|
12:24
|
The
hand of the diligent will rule,
But
the slack hand will be put to forced labor.
|
Didactic
|
Antithetic
|
|
12:27
|
A
slothful man does not roast his prey,
But
the precious possession of a man is diligence.
|
Didactic
|
Antithetic
|
|
13:11
|
Wealth
obtained by fraud dwindles,
But
the one who gathers by labor increases it.
|
Didactic
|
Antithetic
|
|
28:19
|
He
who tills his land will have plenty of food,
But
he who follows empty pursuits will have poverty in plenty.
|
Didactic
|
Antithetic
|
|
15:19
|
The
way of the sluggard is as a hedge of thorns,
But
the path of the upright is a highway.
|
Didactic
|
Antithetic
|
|
20:13
|
Do
not love sleep, lest you become poor;
Open
your eyes, and you will be satisfied with food.
|
Admonition
|
Antithetic
|
|
21:25-26
|
25
The desire of the sluggard puts him to death,
For
his hands refuse to work;
26
All day long he is craving,
While
the righteous gives and does not hold back.
|
Didactic
|
Antithetic
|
|
10:4-5
|
4Poor
is he who works with a negligent hand,
But
the hand of the diligent makes rich.
5He
who gathers in summer is a son who acts wisely,
But
he who sleeps in harvest is a son who acts shamefully.
|
Didactic
|
Antithetic
|
|
13:4
|
The
soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
But
the soul of the diligent is made fat.
|
Didactic
|
Antithetic
|
|
14:23
|
In
all labor there is profit,
But
mere talk leads only to poverty.
|
Didactic
|
Antithetic
|