Dear Joe:

In response to:

"By your posts you have demonstrated to the majority of us who normally post here:

1. that you do not understand Hodge's commentary (BTW it was not posted in your support I assure you. In fact, it supports Pilgrim's view.)

Amen to that. And........

In response to:

"Please, I for one would appreciate it if you would attempt to curb this apparent appetite of yours to degrade others and give us a straight forward exegetical study, verse by verse, of the texts in question. "

And again I say, Amen.

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To Marcus:

Neither historical tradition, nor historical context have ever taken precident over a clear grammatical statement of scripture in any reputable course in hermeneutics, so your insistance to the contrary merely undermines your credibility. The only groups that I believe have taken the position that you have on this are the Roman Catholic Church and the Rabinical Schools, both of which are less than reliable in matters of faith and practice, to say the least.

Therefore, could you kindly deal with the text, the divinely inspired, God breathed Word of God, rather than your allegedly reliable Jewish tradition? It is easy to assert that one has a high view of scripture, but your handling of His Words so far, to me, indicates a very low view of God's inerrant Word, and fall far short of "rightly dividing" them in my estimation.

In Him,

Gerry