Even in the days of the Fathers, the early exegetes were so hopelessly at sea in their methods of application that St. Jerome contents himself, just as I have done, with giving no opinion of his own.
Hitzig sarcastically says that the exegetes have here fallen into all sorts of shiqqootsim themselves.
At the present day modern critics of any weight almost unanimously regard these chapters, in their primary significance, as vaticinia ex eventu, as some older Jewish and Christian exegetes had already done.
The old Jewish exegetes referred the prophecy to Antiochus Epiphanes; Josephus and later writers applied it to the Romans.
Naturally, the Jewish exegetes and philosophers objected vigorously to such an interpretation.
Of the Cocceian exegetes we mention, =Lampe= of Bremen, died A.
The most distinguished exegetes were =Erasmus Schmidt= of Wittenberg, who died in A.
After him the most important Lutheran exegetes of that age are for the New Testament, Melanchthon; Victorin Strigel, who wrote Hyponm.
The number of exegetes who now gave decided prominence to the literal sense became very considerable toward the end of the century.
He attained such proficiency, that he won for himself a place among the most learned exegetes of the Reformed Church as professor of theology at Basel in A.
In every respect Theodore was one of the ablestexegetes of the ancient church and the Syrian church has rightly celebrated him as the “Interpres” par excellence.
There is no more of the colour of history here than in Mark: so obviously is it wanting in both that the really considerate exegetes are driven to explain that history was not the object in either writing.
Why the composer of the original did not add the required chapters is a question to which we get only the most futile answers, as is natural when the exegetes have not critically scrutinized the later matter.
All the exegetes now agree that the "Thou sayest" of Jesus has the force of "I am.
It is the inconceivable omission of the exegetes to face such problems that forces us finally to insist on their serious inadequacy in this regard.
Besides works upon the Talmud, the poets, the philosophers, and the exegetes of the middle ages, he wrote numerous articles in two journals, which he successively edited.
The other representatives of the French school of exegeteshave fallen into oblivion.
The Song of Songs is often applied by Jewish exegetes to the events of the Exodus from Egypt.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "exegetes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
