exegete

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Beckwith isn't an exegete, and most of what he has to say can be summed up as "I learned to read the Bible like a Catholic."

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  1. noun A person skilled in exegesis.

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  • Why, because, he finds attempt to exegete around passages indicated that God loves everyone to be unconvincing because there are "simply too many texts on the other side of the issue." —  Triablogue
  • Read Matthew 5-7 (not exegete it) at least 3 times and record anything that stands out to me. —  4Simpsons Blog - Eternity Matters
  • John MacArthur used to say if you're using Scripture as a springboard to say whatever you want rather than teaching your people what the Bible actually says, you might as well exegete "Little Bo Peep" - and he had a 90-second parody of how that could be done using the style of preaching many contemporary evangelicals seem to favor. —  Pyromaniacs
  • But he doesn't bother to exegete that model from Scripture, using the grammatico-historical method. —  Triablogue
  • [14] In the words of the Roman Catholic biblical exegete —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
 

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  1. Greek exēgētēs, from exēgeisthai, to interpret; see exegesis.

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  1. = French exégète = Spanish Portuguese exegeta = Dutch exegeet = German exeget, from Greek ἐξηγητής, a leader, adviser, expounder, interpreter, from ἐξηγεῖσθαι, lead, explain: see exegesis.
 

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