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Expounding the way of God more perfectly - Acts 18:26 - with the Scriptures Rightly Divided - II Timothy 2:15

Swimming Even Deeper With the King James Bible
Acts 27 - swimming or floating?
Adult Teaching Class

See Introduction for a detailed description of this series.
See Part I for more emphasis on the progressive buildup of understanding within the KJB.
See Part II on the real meaning of the word 'charity' found with in the KJB, not by going "back to the Greek."
Part III on the Biblical definitions of words: Bless; Gospel; Evangelist and Crisping Pin
See Part IV for how the meaning of words is affected by Phonaesthesia and spelling.
See Part V for differences in music/musick; Ceiling; shall/will; which/who;
that/which/who; alway/always; prevent/precede; ensue/pursue' entreat/treat
See Part VI for Nothing more comforting than the sound of the King James Bible!
See Part VII for more ways of defining words within the King James Bible itself!

Rightly Dividing right on down to the very words and letters!

The Language of the King James Bible
Part VIII
 Parallelism & Polish


To help the reader find the location of built-in definition, God repeats and parallels elements of communication such as:
APPERTAIN
Numbers 16:30-33
the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up with all that appertain unto them

the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men... and all their goods.
WEB - to pertain ...belong
WNC - pertain ... to belong as a property

DECK
Job 40:10
Deck thyself now with majesty and excellency; and
arry thyself with glory and beauty
WEB - array

DISANNUL (multiple definitions)
Job 40:8
Wilt thou also disannul...
wilt thou condemn
Isaiah 14:27
who shall disannul it...
who shall turn it back
Isaiah 28:18
shall be disannulled...
shall not stand
Galatians 3:17 - And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.
OED - annul... to make of none effect; to make void

EVENINGTIDE  (concepts)
II Samuel 11:1,2
Ant it came to pass... at the time...
And it came to pass in an eveningtide
DWO - time
Tide means time.  It is a combination of "ti" (time) and 'di' (divide.)  A particular division of time is the evening.


More examples of parallelism:

EXTORTIONER (number of letters repeats)
Psalm 109:11
Let the extortioner catch all that he hath...
let the strangers spoil his labour.

CHASTISE
Leviticus 26:18-28
18) I ... punish you seven times more for your sins
24)  ...punish you seven times for your sins
28)  ...chastise you... seven times for your sins
WEB - punish
chasten - drive to purity


Look for Opposites

BOLLED
Exodus 9:31-32
the flax was bolled. But the wheat and the rie... were not grown up
OED - flax... puffed up

CONTEMNED
Psalm 15:4
a vile person is contemned;
but he honoureth them that fear.
Contemn is the opposite of honour

DEARTH (Parallelism)
Genesis 41:53-56
And the seven years of plenteousness ... were ended.
And the seven years of dearth began ... famine was over all.
WEB - famine


Comparative Relationships of Words

BROID & BROIDERED

Exodus 28:4 - And these are the garments which they shall make; a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a broidered coat, a mitre, and a girdle: and they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, and his sons, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office.
Exodus 28:32 -  And there shall be an hole in the top of it, in the midst thereof: it shall have a binding of woven work round about the hole of it, as it were the hole of an habergeon, that it be not rent.
Exodus 28:39 - And thou shalt embroider the coat of fine linen, and thou shalt make the mitre of fine linen, and thou shalt make the girdle of needlework.
OED embroidered, woven, needlework

I Timothy 2:9 - In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;
OED - adorn as with embroidery to inlay with pearls, gold, etc.

To substitute 'braid' here, as the KJ21, NKJV, NIV, NASV and all the new versions do, does NOT accurately create the picture of the superficial adornments implied by broided.  Just the simple fact that the new versions use braid is enough to tell us the word braided conerning hair is wrong!

Braid comes from the Old English bregdan and means making swift side-to-side movements.
The superficially similiar embroider (broided) had a different origin.

With the usage of similiar words in Exodus 28:4 (broidered) and in I Timothy 2:9 (broided), a comparative relationship is established.

Exodus 28 states that the broidered attire of the priest was for glory and beauty ... unto me (the LORD) vs 1, 3, 4, 41).
I Timothy 2:9 warns that 'broided' adorning of a woman would draw 'glory and beauty' to herself, and not to God.  Note verse 10: But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.  The remaining part of that chapter is about women.


Polishing with Parallelistic examples:

Parallel Numerical Postion of Alliterated Words

Romans 3:27

  Syllables
Bishops
Where is then thy boasting
it is excluded
6
5
KJV
Where is boasting then
It is excluded
5
5

King James Bible

1 2 3 4 5
Where is boast ing then
it is ex clu ded
NIV & TNIV
Where then is boast ing
it is ex clu ded


Mirrored syllable sets are grouped according to meaning.
Observe II Timothy 2:25

**The last verse is one syllable short to stop the flow!

Sounds repeat at predictable intervals.
Each line represents one thought, thoughts to NOT continue on to the next line.



Matthew 6:28,34