Command or Exhortation?
I am studying the phrase "Be strong and courageous." Is there a way to distinguish when the phrase is used as a command and when it is an exhortation?
And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers (Mal 4:6a)
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The English phrase "Be strong and courageous" appears 10x in the ESV. All occurrences have the same sense as the screenshot indicates. However only three of those occurrences are labeled as commands.
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John C Connell Jr. said:
I am studying the phrase "Be strong and courageous." Is there a way to distinguish when the phrase is used as a command and when it is an exhortation?
I tend to use the propositional outline visual filter to help answer these kinds of questions. In you bible click the visual filter symbol (three circles) and under the resource drop down toggle on the 'Propositional Outline' option.
Hope that helps.
Carpe verbum.
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Thanks for the tip Liam. It is the right tool to provide the information I have been seeking.
And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers (Mal 4:6a)
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John C Connell Jr. said:
It is the right tool to provide the information I have been seeking.
And you can use it to constrain searches as well
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John C Connell Jr. said:
Is there a way to distinguish when the phrase is used as a command and when it is an exhortation?
Linguistically the difference is a very fine one. From a rhetorical perspective you would weigh up factors such as the tone / grammar of the phrase, the status of the speaker(utterer) / audience, the setting of the utterance, the actual thing asked for.
Exegetically, splitting hairs over this can sometimes be a waste of time.
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Yes, Lee is correct. The propositional outlines labels are interpretation. They are educated choices and helpful but by no means authoritative and like other datasets can contain errors.
The distinction between command and exhortation can also be based on canonical and theological considerations. For instance, one might choose to consider that it is mainly the Law that contains commands in the OT.
Another criterion would be whether what is urged is universal or clearly spoken to a specific individual or group for a specific situation, in which case it might be more properly considered an exhortation.
An interesting case study is 1 Corinthians 7 in which Paul distinguishes between the Lord's commands and his own Spirit-led exhortations.
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Graham, am I correct in understanding that it is not possible to have a different set of visual filters selected in different instances of the same resource? For example, I would like to have two linked copies of ESV open, one with Speaker Labels selected and one with Propositional Outlines selected.
-john
And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers (Mal 4:6a)
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Hi John
John C Connell Jr. said:Graham, am I correct in understanding that it is not possible to have a different set of visual filters selected in different instances of the same resource?
That is correct, Graham
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John C Connell Jr. said:
For example, I would like to have two linked copies of ESV open, one with Speaker Labels selected and one with Propositional Outlines selected.
Multiview is useful (secondary resource inherits visual filters from primary):
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