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E. W. Bullinger

How to Enjoy the Bible

E. W. Bullinger

Bullinger on how to read the Bible so as to enjoy it: the word as a whole, rightly dividing it as to literary form, as to its subject matter, and as to times and dispensations. Written after two readers asked him to teach them to study it for themselves.

86 Chapters

Table of Contents

1 01. "I SPEAK TO YOU GENTILES." 2 02. THE WORDS 3 03. INTRODUCTORY 4 04. INTRODUCTORY 5 05. I. THE WORD: ITS ONE GREAT OBJECT 6 06. I. THE WORD: ITS ONE GREAT OBJECT 7 07. 1. CHRIST IN THE WORD AS A WHOLE 8 08. Ii. CHRIST IN THE SEPARATE BOOKS OF THE WORD 9 09. · II. THE WORD: ITS ONE GREAT SUBJECT 10 10. "RIGHTLY DIVIDING" THE WORD 11 11. I. AS TO LITERARY FORM (SEPARATE BOOKS) 12 12. I. AS TO LITERARY FORM (CHAPTER BREAKS) 13 13. I. AS TO LITERARY FORM (CHAPTER BREAKS) 14 14. III. RIGHATELY DIVIDING THE WORD 15 15. 1. AS TO LITERARY FORM (PUNCTUATION) 16 16. CONCERNING WHOM IS THIS WRITTEN! 17 17. 2. The Seven Times or Dispensations 18 18. PARENTHESIS OF PRESENT DISPENSATION 19 19. PARENTHESIS OF PRESENT DISPENSATION 20 20. Iv. RIGHTLY DIVIDING THE WORD AS TO ITS DISPENSA-TIONAL TRUTH AND TEACHING 21 21. 1. THE PAST: "GO NOT" AND "BUT NOW" 22 22. "God's Gospel." 23 23. 3. PRESENT NOT INTO PAST: THE "CHURCH" 24 24. 4. THE FUTURE NOT INTO PRESENT: TRIBULATION 25 25. 4. THE FUTURE NOT INTO PRESENT: TRIBULATION 26 26. 4. THE FUTURE NOT INTO PRESENT: THE 141,000 27 27. 5. FUTURE EVENTS: THE DIFFERENT ADVENTS 28 28. 5. FUTURE EVENTS: THE DIFFERENT ADVENTS 29 29. 5. FUTURE EVENTS: THE RESURRECTIONS 30 30. 5. FUTURE EVENTS: THE JUDGMENTS 31 31. The Pauline Epistles 32 32. "PRIVATE INTERPRETATION" (2 PET. I. 20) 33 33. "SPIRITS IN PRISON" (1 PET. III. 19) 34 34. "SPIRITS IN PRISON" (1 PET. III. 19) 35 35. TESTAMENT AND COVENANT (HEB. IX. 15-23) 36 36. I. INTRODUCTORY: THE HISTORY AND IMPORTANCE OF THE SUBJECT 37 37. I. INTRODUCTORY: HISTORY OF STRUCTURE 38 38. Ii. THE PRINCIPLES GOVERNING THE STRUCTURE OF SCRIPTURE 39 39. Repeated Alternation 40 40. V. ILLUSTRATIONS OF STRUCTURE: 2 PET. I. 20 41 41. V. ILLUSTRATIONS OF STRUCTURE: 1 PET. III. 19 42 42. V. ILLUSTRATIONS OF STRUCTURE: 2 Cor. v. 6, 7 43 43. THE BIBLICAL USAGE OF WORDS IS ESSENTIAL TO THEIR CORRECT INTERPRETATION 44 44. Ii. USAGE OF ENGLISH WORDS CHANGED 45 45. Iii USAGE OF GREEK WORDS CHANGED 46 46. Iv. CONCURRENT GREEK USAGES: "PAROUSIA" 47 47. Iv. CONCURRENT GREEK USAGES: "PNEUMA" 48 48. Iv. CONCURRENT GREEK USAGES: "ELEMENTS" 49 49. Iv. CONCURRENT GREEK USAGES: "SAINTS" 50 50. V. UNIFORM GREEK USAGES: "WITHHOLD" 51 51. V. UNIFORM GREEK USAGES: "TEMPT," "POOR" 52 52. UNIFORM GREEK USAGE: "SHEOL" & "HADES" 53 53. V. UNIFORM GREEK USAGE: "MYSTERY" 54 54. Ii. EXAMPLES OF ERROR ARISING FROM A DISREGARD OF THE CONTEXT 55 55. Ii. ERRORS FROM ITS DISREGARD: TEXT-MANGLING 56 56. (a) The Nearer Context 57 57. (b) The Remoter Context 58 58. TRUTH FROM REMOTER CONTEXT: ACTS II. 16 59 59. I. AS TO WORDS: "PROPHET" 60 60. I. AS TO WORDS: "HALLELUJAH" 61 61. I. AS TO WORDS: "SELAH" 62 62. Ii. EXPRESSIONS 63 63. VI.—THE PLACE WHERE THE PASSAGE OCCURS IS OFTEN ESSENTIAL TO ITS FULL INTERPRETATION 64 64. "COME UNTO ME": MATT. XI. 28 65 65. VII. NO TWO SCRITURES REPUGNANT 66 66. THE WEAK BROTHER OF 1 COR. VIII. ROM. XIV 67 67. INACCURACY THE SOURCE OF ERRORS 68 68. GOD'S COMMAND FOR SACRIFICES 69 69. PROPHECIES SPOKEN AND WRITTEN 70 70. THE INSCRIPTIONS ON THE CROSS 71 71. THE OFFERING OF DRINK AT THE CROSS 72 72. THE "OTHERS" CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST 73 73. Ii. ILLUSTRATIONS OF ACCURACY APPLIED TO THE REVELATION OF TRUTH 74 74. THE "BLOOD" IN 1 JOHN I. 7 AND II. 1 75 75. 3. Marks of Time 76 76. 5. Numeration 77 77. SAME PERSON, DIFFERENT NAMES 78 78. 7. Chronology 79 79. IX. FIGURES OF SPEECH 80 80. 1. THE ACCOUNT OF CREATION 81 81. GREEK MSS., NEW TESTAMENT 82 82. EDITORS OF GREEK TEXT 83 83. EDITORS OF GREEK TEXT 84 84. INDEXES 85 85. 1. INDEX OF SUBJECTS 86 86. WORKS BY E. W. BULLINGER, D.D

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