Context! Context! Context!

[Phil D.]

In a very real sense the logical context is the most basic factor in interpretation. I tell my classes that if anyone is half asleep and does not hear a question that I ask, there is 50 percent chance of being correct if he or she answers “context!” ...Immediate context is the final arbiter for all decisions regarding the meaning of a term or concept.​

(Grant Osborne, The Hermeneutical Spiral, 2006, 39)​

 

[arapahoepark]

I have heard it said "Context is Queen because Jesus is King."

 

[ReformedChristian]

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In a very real sense the logical context is the most basic factor in interpretation. I tell my classes that if anyone is half asleep and does not hear a question that I ask, there is 50 percent chance of being correct if he or she answers “context!” ...Immediate context is the final arbiter for all decisions regarding the meaning of a term or concept.​

(Grant Osborne, The Hermeneutical Spiral, 2006, 39)​

Great book

 

[TheInquirer]

Immediate context is the final arbiter for all decisions regarding the meaning of a term or concept.

I don’t agree with that statement but I would have to read it in context .

 

[arapahoepark]

I don’t agree with that statement but I would have to read it in context .

Lol.
Indeed. I have been wrestling lately with certain words, namely the dik- group. So, if a word is used outside it's normal usage, or in a completely different context, without word smithing, does it's meaning completely change? Or does audience and assuming what we know about them govern what it likely meant?

 

[C4MERON]

Context is key in bible interpretation. Take the TEXT out of CONTEXT, you could CON anybody..

 

[Phil D.]

I don’t agree with that statement but I would have to read it in context .

For context, here's a visual representation of the context for Osborne's remarks on context... Note he said "final" not "sole."