Paul on unity?
How do I put together a search in the Greek NT to find everything Paul said about unity? Searched for this but either typed in my question unclearly or simply cannot find what I want. Thanks in advance.
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Does limiting a Bible search to the Pauline epistles and searching for <Sense agreement> give you what you want?
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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I've tried some "sense" searches but they always turn red and get no results.
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If me, in like situations, I find a passage that meets my 'topic' idea, and then see how it's classed for searching.
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Thanks. I am not sure I understand what you are saying. Can you give me an example? Old guy here [;)]
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Old guy here
I'm guessing I have 'old' more than you!
In the example below, I was curious if the apocalyptic 'nearer' (eg shortening the time) was specially coded for searching. Right-clicking it shows the various tag-schemes (none of which were helpful, beyond the usual apocalyptic). You probably have examples of 'unity' from Paul?
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I've tried some "sense" searches but they always turn red and get no results.
That tells me you weren't selecting a sense from the drop-down menu but was entering an unknown value. However, I was recommending precisely what I wrote as I found no results with the senses of unity that I tried.
I would do a version of what DMB recommended.
- take a passage that you know you want to select
- select the word that "means" unity in the passage
- right click to open the context menu
- select "sense" on the left-hand side of the menu
- select Bible search on the right-hand side of the menu
- modify the search to limit it to the Pauline epistles
PS - I suspect I'm in the same age range.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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Ah, I didn't understand what you were suggesting. I'll try this later, my laptop battery died. Thank you.
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Follow-up question for MJ Smith:
I see that your search also picked up 1 Corinthians 6:16 that has a similar, different Greek word that my search did not catch. One difference is that you searched "Greek Bible test" that looks like a custom series. Could you tell me what resources are included in the series?
Jack Hairston [long-time user who is still learning about Logos]
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I would do a version of what DMB recommended.
Granted, my approach is similar to a bludgeon (limited workability). But the OP's question illustrates the 'sense' diagram as having limited usability (in largely religious software). The better 'sense' would have worked off of 'church' > 'body'. But you'd have to already know the semantic connection between 'agree' and 'group' > 'body'.
LN 11.3x sort of hints at the semantic connectivity.
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Could you tell me what resources are included in the series?
- Aland, Barbara, Kurt Aland, Johannes Karavidopoulos, Carlo M. Martini, and Bruce M. Metzger, eds. The Greek New Testament. Fifth Revised Edition. Stuttgart, Germany: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 2014.
- Septuaginta: With Morphology. Electronic ed. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1979.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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