Category: Scripture Notes and Queries, by F G Patterson
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Questions 81 & 82 , Scripture Notes and Queries. by F G Patterson. Questions and Answers. Edited by Irv Risch
Question 81: Another correspondent asks, if in Hebrews 10:22, “sprinkled from an evil conscience,” is not sprinkling of blood upon persons, and for sins? etc. Answer 81: I have already spoken of this. Blood is not mentioned in the passage at all, though I dare say alluded to. Nor is it so much a question…
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Questions 79 & 80 , Scripture Notes and Queries. by F G Patterson. Questions and Answers. Edited by Irv Risch
Question 79: You say, “Suppose there had been no blood-shedding, might there not have been the blood (qy. water), for condemnation?” Answer 79: This I pass, because it is based on a supposition. Question 80: We often see the conscience aroused without any results following. Would it then be correct to say,…
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Question 78, Scripture Notes and Queries. by F G Patterson. Questions and Answers. Edited by Irv Risch
Question: Again, “It is said, the blood is always presented to God. Is there no application of the blood to us in Hebrews 10:22?” I have already spoken of Hebrews 10:22. I believe it to be a reference ― though not solely ― to the consecration of the priests of old. But…
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Question 77, Scripture Notes and Queries. by F G Patterson. Questions and Answers. Edited by Irv Risch
Question: Several questions have come to hand, and as it seems that some have had difficulties about the reply to the question, “When is a person sprinkled with the blood of Christ?” ― I take up the remarks, and questions of Correspondents in detail. “Then the veil will not be rent…
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Question 76, Scripture Notes and Queries. by F G Patterson. Questions and Answers. Edited by Irv Risch
Question: (2) ‘Is the unbeliever quickened?’ Answer: Most assuredly it is an unbeliever who is quickened, otherwise he would be a believer of his own act. Where, then would be the truth of John 1:10-12; James 1:18? If God did not quicken us by the Word, we never would be saved. No doubt, on the other…
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Question 75, Scripture Notes and Queries. by F G Patterson. Questions and Answers. Edited by Irv Risch
Question: ‘When is a person sprinkled by the blood of Christ?’ Answer: 1. As to the first question; the only passage in the New Testament where ραντίζω ― to sprinkle; or ράνησμός ― sprinkling, are used definitely with reference to Christians, are Hebrews 10:22, “Having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience;” in Hebrews 12:24, “To the blood of sprinkling;” also in Peter 1:2,…
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Question 74, Scripture Notes and Queries. by F G Patterson. Questions and Answers. Edited by Irv Risch
Question: “Did the ministry of Paul, concerning ‘one body’ the church, commence when he was a prisoner at Rome? Because, at the conclusion of his oral testimony in Acts 26, he says to Agrippa that he was 6 saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say…
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Question 73, Scripture Notes and Queries. by F G Patterson. Questions and Answers. Edited by Irv Risch
Question: “What is the meaning of the parable of the debtor who was forgiven, and then put in prison until he paid to the uttermost? Is it Jewish? and what is the application to us?” Answer: I presume you allude to Matthew 18:23-35. The Gospel of Matthew presents Jesus as…
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Question 72, Scripture Notes and Queries. by F G Patterson. Questions and Answers. Edited by Irv Risch
Question: “Will you kindly give a little help as to the Old Testament saints. We know they had life, and were saved as we are through faith; but had they the new birth, or new creation, in which the Holy Ghost dwells? Had they it without an inhabitant? What was…
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Question 71, Scripture Notes and Queries. by F G Patterson. Questions and Answers. Edited by Irv Risch
Question: “What is the proper teaching of 1 Corinthians 11:5? Is there any ground in it for a woman praying in an ordinary meeting for prayer, of course not in church?” Answer: First of all, I believe that in an “ordinary meeting for prayer,” Christians gather together “in assembly.” Any gathering together of…
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Question 70, Scripture Notes and Queries. by F G Patterson. Questions and Answers. Edited by Irv Risch
Question: “What is the correct thought of Hebrews 12:23: ‘To the general assembly and church of the firstborn’? Does the Holy Ghost repeat Himself, or is there a distinction?” Answer: The passage should be read, “But ye are come unto mount Zion; and unto the city of the living God the heavenly Jerusalem; and to…
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Question 69, Scripture Notes and Queries. by F G Patterson. Questions and Answers. Edited by Irv Risch
Question: “Would you please define in some measure the terms ‘kingdom of heaven’ and ‘kingdom of God.’ Sometimes they seem interchangeable, and other times not so. Matthew chiefly uses the former, and he only; Luke the latter, as others too.” Answer: “The kingdom of the heavens” (the true rendering) is…
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Question 68, Scripture Notes and Queries. by F G Patterson. Questions and Answers. Edited by Irv Risch
Question: “What is the difference between Matthew 16:19, and 18:18? Does the first refer to salvation in connection with the bringing in of the members to be added to the Church; and the second to the discipline of the Assembly? Or, do they both refer anticipatively to discipline? “ Answer:…
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Question 67, Scripture Notes and Queries. by F G Patterson. Questions and Answers. Edited by Irv Risch
Question: “What is the difference between the bitter experience of Romans 7:14-24, and the conflict of flesh and the Spirit, as in Galatians 5? How am I to know in which state I am? Do not both come to the same wretched experience in the end, if in the conflict the…
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Questions 65 & 66, Scripture Notes and Queries. by F G Patterson. Questions and Answers. Edited by Irv Risch
Question 65: “What is to ‘stand perfect and complete in all the will of God?’” (Colossians 4:12.) Answer 65: Epaphras’ prayer was the echo of the apostle’s, as one may say. (See chapters 1:9, and 2:1-3.) Paul had never seen the Colossians, but had heard of them through Epaphras. He could thank…
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Question 64, Scripture Notes and Queries. by F G Patterson. Questions and Answers. Edited by Irv Risch
Question: “Why is the baptism of the Holy Ghost (Matthew 3:11), referred to so early in the Gospels?” Answer: John Baptist, in announcing Jehovah-Messiah to His people in Matthew’s gospel, brings His two advents together, whether in grace or judgment. This was suited to His gospel, because He has as…
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Questions 62 &63 , Scripture Notes and Queries. by F G Patterson. Questions and Answers. Edited by Irv Risch
Question 62: “What are ‘Governments’ in 1 Corinthians 12:28?” Answer 62: This word is only found here in the New Testament. He is speaking of members of the body set in the assembly. Those thus designated are gifted to guide and direct the assembly, as a pilot does his ship in…
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Question 61, Scripture Notes and Queries. by F G Patterson. Questions and Answers. Edited by Irv Risch
Question: “Does Isaiah 49:9-10, apply to Jews or Gentiles?” Answer: I believe it applies to the Jews. The chapter gives you a complete history of Christ, replacing Israel on earth as Jehovah’s servant, from the womb of the Virgin to the throne of the kingdom. In verses 4, 5, the Spirit…
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Question 60, Scripture Notes and Queries. by F G Patterson. Questions and Answers. Edited by Irv Risch
Question: I had difficulties as to the passage of which you write (Revelation 20:4); comparing it with other passages, such as 1 Corinthians 15:54, etc, which disappeared in seeing that the first resurrection does not describe a period of time, but a class of persons having this characteristic name. Answer: In the passage (Revelation 20:4),…
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Questions 58 &59, Scripture Notes and Queries. by F G Patterson. Questions and Answers. Edited by Irv Risch
Question 58: “Why, in 1 Timothy 3:15, do we get the ‘Living’ God? Why ‘Living?’” Answer 58: “The Son of the living God” (Matthew 16:16-17) is what the Church was built upon. It is the power which has brought it above dying man, and withal is abiding. It is a term of power…
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