dmwessel
Have you ever compiled a list of words like that?
I often thought that the Bible defines itself. In other words, that the Bible is its own dictionary.
If you have a list, could you post it?
THANKS!
Yes it does define itself Jim. Are you just interested in this subject or others because I posted the following example on another thread:
It’s called ‘the confirming law’:
“And the Lord said unto Moses, come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give
thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.” (Exodus 24:12)
And he gave unto Moses when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai,
two tables of the testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God. (Exodus 31:18)
“Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the **two tables of the Testimony **were in his hand. The tables were
written on both sides; on the one side and on the other they were written.” (Exodus 32:15, also Exodus 34:1 & 28 and Deut. 4:13, Ezek. 3:1-4)
“Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write *them upon *
the table of thine heart.” (Proverbs 3:3)
“Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of
thine heart.” (Proverbs 4:21)
“Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon** the table of thine heart**.” (Proverbs 7:3)
Ezekiel 11:19:
And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and
I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:
Ezekiel 36:26:
A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and **I will take away the stony heart **
out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
“Forasmuch as you are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God;
not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.” (2 Cor. 3:3)
There were initially **2 **tables (“Can two walk together, unless they are agreed?” (Amos 3:3) but verses after that say
the table (as in one heart), and verses after that clarify it as ‘table of your heart’.
Therefore, it means that God writes His commandments on the table of our heart.
The fact there were initially 2 tables means agreeing. Verses that agree (repeat each other/confirm) is the interpreting method to use for these writings. This method reveals the otherworldly component to God’s amazing writings. It’s also a way to determine if writings are truly inspired by God.
By this method is the heart made new as the stony heart (stone table/hard heart) is changed to a heart of flesh.
