Its exegesis of the text is exact and thorough; its use of the best expositors most helpful; its final conclusion generally convincing.
We have no hesitation in saying that for every-day working purposes expositors of the Book of Joshua will find this volume more helpful than many more critical and modernised works.
The older expositors understand the words to express the Apostle's wish that his readers should continue to minister to the saints.
Many expositors think the words which we have rendered "Leader" and "Perfecter" refer to Christ's own faith.
Most expositors fight shy of the inference and explain it away by alleging that the negative has been misplaced.
Many expositors see a reference in the Apostle's words to the Lord's Table, and some of them infer from the word "altar" that the Eucharist is a continual offering of a propitiatory sacrifice to God.
Recent expositors have sufficiently proved that there was a Judaic element in the Colossian heresy.
It will be seen that we accept the explanation of the twenty-seventh verse given by all expositors down to the time of De Lyra and Calvin.
Many very excellent expositors think that our author refers, not to the final dissolution of nature, but to the abrogation of the Jewish economy.
Expositors go quite astray when they explain the simile as if it were intended to describe the effect on moral character of rightly or wrongly using our faculty of knowledge.
Many expositors strive hard to make the words mean something else than the reproach which Christ Himself suffered.
Many expositorsprefer another rendering: "the reflection of His glory.
The supposition of a mysterious inherent relation, between Names and the things named, has found acceptance among expositors of many different countries.
Rashi towered above the contemporaneous Christian expositors of the Bible, who all believed that Holy Writ contained a fourfold meaning.
Some ancient commentators have regarded it an interpolation, not a genuine part of Homer; modern expositors have not hesitated to follow the same opinion.
So distinct is it that someexpositors have held that it is a separate poem, not an integral portion of the entire action.
Again; one of the most eminent of the expositors has spoken of each system of this kind as a Philosophy of the Unconditioned[300].
Which aenigmatical deliveries comprehend useful verities, but being mistaken by literal Expositors at the first, they have been mis-understood by most since, and may be occasion of Error to Verbal capacities for ever.
Bunyan's adversaries were wrong in stating that all the expositors agreed in referring this 'one baptism' to be that in or with water.
What if I should also send you to answer those expositors that expound certain scriptures for infant baptism, and that by them brand us for anabaptists; must this drive you from your belief of the truth?
The Kur-an being the Muslims' rule of faith and practice, it is no wonder its expositors and commentators are so very numerous; and it may not be amiss to take notice of the rules they observe in expounding it.
The expositors are not agreed whether the pronoun they relates to Malik and his companions, or to Joseph's brethren.
What the provisions were with which the table was furnished is a matter wherein the expositors are not agreed.
They wereexpositors of what was ready made, rather than searchers for the new.
The great authority which names like Alfarabi, Avicenna and Averroes acquired still further served to stamp them as the approved expositors of the Aristotelian doctrine.
Pictures of female friendships, in all their glory and tragedy, their ecstatic fusions and heroic sacrifices, their bitter jealousies and inversions, abound in the great dramatists, who are the crowned expositors of human nature.
The portrayal of sports or trades, which is the sort of thing with which many folk-dances are concerned, does not detract from their interest as expositors of national temperament.
The numerous people required to animate such an establishment, including as it does accommodations for visitors, are the expositors of the national dances.
By these expositors of Dante the image is transferred to the style and structure of his writings.
We need not with some expositors draw the sad conclusion that St. John affectionately hints that there were others of the family who could not be included in this joyful message.
As regards the last words of this verse, the same twofold false interpretation which we noticed among Jewish interpreters, is found among Christian expositors also.
Several of the ancient expositors here assume a sudden transition to the Christian Church; but such would be a salto mortale.
Footnote 18: That there exists a connection between Shiloh and Solomon has often been guessed at and expressed; but expositors have not succeeded well in determining it more closely.
Now, we ask the Episcopal expositors to tell us where we are to look for godfathers or godmothers at the baptisms mentioned in the Acts?
It is difficult to make out the meaning in various places; and there is considerable diversity of opinion among expositors of the document.
In these circumstances the prophets were the true reformers, the advocates of political liberty, expositors of the principles that give life and stability to a nation.
It was evidently not the author's intention to begin the second period of sixty weeks simultaneously with the first period, as some expositors have thought, because the whole passage shows conclusively that he meant seventy independent weeks.
Expositors of every school generally agree that Rome Pagan, or Rome Papal, or Rome under both aspects, is intended here.
Other expositors allegorise in a different but no more satisfactory manner.
Now many expositors suppose that in the very form of that phrase there is suggested the extreme of weariness and exhaustion which He suffered, after the hard day's toil.
They pretended to no power but as expositors of a law; and they fortified themselves by citations of what this, that, and the other rabbi had said, which was all their learning.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "expositors" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
