Biblical Hermeneutics

PRINCIPLES OF BIBLICAL HERMENETICS ; M. M. NINAN
And: What man is there among you who has one sheep, and if it falls into a pit on the
Sabbath, will not lay hold of it and lift it out? Of how much more value then is a man than a
sheep? Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath. (Mt. 12:11-12)
(Reverse) “If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. 19 "If
you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world,
but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. 20 "Remember the word
that I said to you, 'A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted Me, they will
also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will keep yours also.” ( John 15:18)
Other examples of Y'shua's usage of kal vahomer are: Matthew 6:26, 30 = Luke 12:24, 28;
Mathhew 7:11 = Luke 11:13; Matthew 10:25 & John 15:18-20; Matthew 12:12 & John 7:23
Paul especially used kal vahomer. Examples include: Romans 5:8-9, 10, 15, 17; 11:12, 24; 1
Corinthians 9:11-12; 12:22; 2 Corinthians 3:7-9, 11; Philippians 2:12; Philemon 1:16;
Hebrews 2:2-3; 9:13-14; 10:28-29; 12:9, 25.
Deu_31:27 For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you
this day, ye have been rebellious against Jehovah; and how much more after my death?
1Sa_14:29-30 Then said Jonathan, My father hath troubled the land: see, I pray you, how mine
eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey. How much more, if haply the
people had eaten freely to-day of the spoil of their enemies which they found? for now hath
there been no great slaughter among the Philistines.
1Sa_21:5 And David answered the priest, and said unto him, Of a truth women have been
kept from us about these three days; when I came out, the vessels of the young men were
holy, though it was but a common journey; how much more then to-day shall their vessels
be holy?
1Sa_23:3 And David's men said unto him, Behold, we are afraid here in Judah: how much
more then if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?
2Sa_4:10-11 Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to have brought good tidings, I took hold of him,
and slew him in Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his tidings. How much more, when
wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed, shall I not now
require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?
2Sa_16:11 And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son, who came
forth from my bowels, seeketh my life: how much more may this Benjamite now do it? let
him alone, and let him curse; for Jehovah hath bidden him.
Job_4:19 How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the
dust, Who are crushed before the moth!
Pro_11:31 Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: How much more the
wicked and the sinner!
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