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Originally Posted by Tithesmeister
I will post it. However, I don’t believe it changes the context of the passage. It rather seems to reinforce it.
[9] Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.
[10] For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
[11] For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.
[12] To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
[13] But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
[14] Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
[15] Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
[16] Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
Your thoughts?
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This passage was suggested as evidence in favor of a hermeneutical rule, that "an essential doctrine must be found taught in two or more distinct passages of Scripture". I had asked where such a rule is found in Scripture, and the above passage was supplied.
In regards to the passage, I notice it does not state the proposed hermeneutical rule in any fashion that I can determine. What it does suggest is that teaching is built piece by piece "here a little, there a little, precept UPON precept", etc. Israel was rejecting the teaching of God because they felt it was childish, as when a child is taught by rote memorization, and by "a little here, a little there, precept upon precept". So they rejected it, and stumbled and fell. Yet God's way is precept upon precept, etc, and this is for them that are weaned (ie mature). It is not childish or beneath anyone's dignity.
Precept upon precept etc indicates that learning doctrine starts somewhere, with a foundation, and the rest is built upon that, each layer or level being built upon the one before. Sadly, this approach is lacking in many places, as doctrine is often taught as a hodgepodge of unconnected propositions to be accepted and propagated. As a result, many doctrines exist in a vacuum for many folks, who cannot understand where the doctrines come from or why they even exist.
But as to the proposed hermeneutical rule that essential doctrines must be repeated in two or more passages, I do not see THIS passage saying anything of the sort.
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