a-furma-tivs (, diischurzomai). The verb affirm occurs in several passages of the New Testament in the sense of assert (Luk 22:59; Act 12:15; Act 25:19 , pha-sko; Rom 3:8 , phem; 1 Tim 17; Tit 3:8 , diabebaioomai. The Hebrew does not employ affirmative particles, but gives a positive reply by either repeating the word in question or by substituting the first person in the reply for the second person in the question, or by employing the formula: Thou hast said or Thou hast rightly said. The Saviour used this idiom ( , su epas) when answering Judas and Caiaphas (Mat 26:25, Mat 26:64). A peculiar elegance occasionally attaches to the interpretation of the Scriptures because of their use of an affirmative and a negative together, rendering the sense more emphatic; sometimes the negative occurs first, as in Psa 118:17 : I shall not die, but live; sometimes the affirmative precedes, as in Isa Psa 88:1 : Thou shalt die, and not bye Joh 1:20 is made peculiarly emphatic because of the negative placed between two affirmatives: And he confessed, and denied not; and he confessed, I am not the Christ.<\/p>\n
Affirm, Affirmatives a-furma-tivs (, diischurzomai). The verb affirm occurs in several passages of the New Testament in the sense of assert (Luk 22:59; Act 12:15; Act 25:19 , pha-sko; Rom 3:8 , phem; 1 Tim 17; Tit 3:8 , diabebaioomai. The Hebrew does not employ affirmative particles, but gives a positive reply by either repeating … Continue reading “Affirm, Affirmatives”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}