The Structures Discernible Within Scripture

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'And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea:
who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews.
These were more noble than those in Thessalonica,
in that they received the word with all readiness of mind,
and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.'
(Act 17:10-11)

Hello there,

I have been looking at the book of Ephesians, in my Bible, which is KJV, but entitled, 'The Companion Bible', and compiled largely by Dr. E.W. Bullinger. It has marginal notes and appendices which I find useful, but as with all of these things, care must be taken to check all things, like the Bereans of old (Acts 17:11).

What I particularly like are the structures of the books within it's pages, all of them have their structures displayed, so that you can see at a glance the subject matter laid out for comparison. At the back, in the appendix, No. 198 there is a structure of Scripture in it's entirety. This is the link to it, should you be interested:- https://levendwater.org/companion/append198.html

There comes to my mind a booklet, which is an introduction to the Structures of Scripture by a man named, Andrew H. Morton. It is entitled, 'The Scriptures Testify of Me'. Here is the link should you wish to follow it up. I can recommend it:-
https://www.bibleunderstanding.com/The_Scriptures_Testify_of_Me.pdf

* If anyone has anything to comment about the structures to be found forming naturally, by subject matter etc., I would like to hear what you have to say.

Within the love of Christ our Saviour,
our Lord and Head,
Now risen and glorified,
And sat at God's right had.
Chris

 

[Love Fountain]

'And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea:
who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews.
These were more noble than those in Thessalonica,
in that they received the word with all readiness of mind,
and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.'
(Act 17:10-11)

Hello there,

I have been looking at the book of Ephesians, in my Bible, which is KJV, but entitled, 'The Companion Bible', and compiled largely by Dr. E.W. Bullinger. It has marginal notes and appendices which I find useful, but as with all of these things, care must be taken to check all things, like the Bereans of old (Acts 17:11).

What I particularly like are the structures of the books within it's pages, all of them have their structures displayed, so that you can see at a glance the subject matter laid out for comparison. At the back, in the appendix, No. 198 there is a structure of Scripture in it's entirety. This is the link to it, should you be interested:- https://levendwater.org/companion/append198.html

Hello Chris,

The Companion Bible is the greatest study Bible on the planet, nothing compares to it! With the Massorah, the Structures, the appendixes and so much more and how Blessed are you to have one for yourself and to be searching the Scriptures and learning the lessons within it. While it is the text of the KJV, the text is arranged according to the subject structures in the side notes appearing on most pages of each chapter and at the beginning of each book as a whole.

From YHVH, through the Ancient Hebrews, through Abravanel, through Azariah de Rossi, through Robert Lowth, through John Jebb, through Thomas Boys, through E.W. Bullinger and others are we gifted to see and share the greatest proof of the One Author of Scriptures!

You're familiar with these names if you spent time in Bullinger's Figures of Speech used in the Bible and looked up Parallelism and Correspondence. Another great resource for understanding and learning the structures is in Bullinger's How to Enjoy the Bible. All of these are online and free to read and study.

It was given by God to Thomas Boys to help Parallelism mature into Correspondence and covering subjects and subject matter, to which God then gave to Bullinger and really opened up the study and subject culminating in the Companion Bible. Bullinger passed before it was complete but he was working on some amazing things!

Like the Correspondence of the Hebrew Bible showing in Appendix 1, here's a link to it, Appendix One - Hebrew Canon Structure

Have you ever considered the order of the Hebrew Bible aka Tanakh as Bullinger represents it in Appendix One and compared it to our English OT Bible order?

Blessings,
Love Fountain

John 8:47

.....A - He that is of God
.........B - heareth God's words
.........B - ye therefore hear not
.....A - because ye are not of God

 

[Love Fountain]

Hello Chris,

Discernible structures seem to begin in the form of couplets, precept upon precept, line upon line, the nursery rhyme of mockery in Isaiah 28 by those who wouldn't listen, the rebellious who didn't seem to care, yet even they said, precept answers to precept, line answers to line and hence it is so.

Robert Lowth in his Parallelism pursuit noticed the line answering to line in the relations between the lines as either Synonymous, Antithetic or Synthetic, perhaps we can say in a layman way that the correspondence is either the same, opposite or built upon, whether the simplification oversimplifies we'll have to see.

Ecclesiastes 3:2-8 may be easily discernible to see a structure, pattern, or a design as follows as the opposites (antithetic) are brought forth:


A time to be born,
................and a time to die

A time to plant
................and a time to pluck up that which is planted

A time to kill
................and a time to heal

A time to break down
................and a time to build up

A time to weep
................and a time to laugh

A time to mourn
................and a time to dance

A time to cast away stones
................and a time to gather stones together

A time to embrace
................and a time to refrain from embracing

A time to get
................and a time to lose

A time to keep
................and a time to cast away

A time to rend
................and a time to sew

A time to keep silence
................and a time to speak

A time to love
................and a time to hate

A time of war
................and a time of peace.

Blessings,
Love Fountain

 

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Hello Chris,

The Companion Bible is the greatest study Bible on the planet, nothing compares to it! With the Massorah, the Structures, the appendixes and so much more and how Blessed are you to have one for yourself and to be searching the Scriptures and learning the lessons within it. While it is the text of the KJV, the text is arranged according to the subject structures in the side notes appearing on most pages of each chapter and at the beginning of each book as a whole.

From YHVH, through the Ancient Hebrews, through Abravanel, through Azariah de Rossi, through Robert Lowth, through John Jebb, through Thomas Boys, through E.W. Bullinger and others are we gifted to see and share the greatest proof of the One Author of Scriptures!

You're familiar with these names if you spent time in Bullinger's Figures of Speech used in the Bible and looked up Parallelism and Correspondence. Another great resource for understanding and learning the structures is in Bullinger's How to Enjoy the Bible. All of these are online and free to read and study.

It was given by God to Thomas Boys to help Parallelism mature into Correspondence and covering subjects and subject matter, to which God then gave to Bullinger and really opened up the study and subject culminating in the Companion Bible. Bullinger passed before it was complete but he was working on some amazing things!

Like the Correspondence of the Hebrew Bible showing in Appendix 1, here's a link to it, Appendix One - Hebrew Canon Structure

Have you ever considered the order of the Hebrew Bible aka Tanakh as Bullinger represents it in Appendix One and compared it to our English OT Bible order?

Blessings,
Love Fountain

John 8:47

.....A - He that is of God
.........B - heareth God's words
.........B - ye therefore hear not
.....A - because ye are not of God

Hello @Love Fountain,

Your entries are a breath of fresh morning air to me, and I am drinking in the peace they have brought to my being as I read along. To find oneness is such a joy. Thank God.

I have the books you have referred to in my possession, they are much thumbed, and I am so grateful for them. I echo your every word in regard to their value.

I hope this will be the beginning of an acquaintance born of mutual respect and delight in the Scriptures that these books seek to convey.

Within the love of Christ our Saviour,
our Lord and Head.
Chris

 

[Love Fountain]

Hi Chris,

Hope all is well!

It's really great to find someone interested in the structures and thought you might like the following showing all four Gospels and their whole book subject structure outlines on one page with colors matching their corresponding texts. Makes a cool wall paper on the monitor too.

It's amazing to think how God through His Spirit wrote these texts through a tax collector, a young boy, a doctor and a fisherman. No way these guys would all write like these subject structure outlines reveal. It's amazing too that God still allows their characters and personalities to come through as well, like doctor Luke for example, his gospel has all kinds of medical words and terminology, where as Mark being a young boy his gospel is the shortest and most direct, just like a youngster, direct and to the point telling it like it is. Anyway, thought you might enjoy this below.

God Bless,
Love Fountain

 

[Love Fountain]

To whosoever will,

“The Structures… are the surest guide to their interpretation, and the strongest proof of their inspiration.

They give, not a mere Analysis evolved from the Text by human ingenuity, but a Symmetrical Exhibition of the Word itself, which may be discerned by the humblest reader of the Sacred Text, and seen to be one of the most important evidences of the Divine Inspiration of its words.

For these Structures constitute a remarkable phenomenon peculiar to Divine Revelation; and are not found outside it in any other form of known literature.

This distinguishing feature is caused by the repetition of subjects which reappear, either in alternation or introversion, or a combination of both in many divers manners…forming a telescopic view of the whole book are thus expanded, divided, and subdivided, until chapters and paragraphs, and even verses and sentences, are seen to form part of a wondrous whole, giving a microscopic view of its manifold details, and showing forth the fact, that while the works of the LORD are great and perfect, the WORD of the LORD is the greatest of His works, and is “perfect” also (Psalm 19:7).” - E.W. Bullinger, Preface to the Companion Bible


The PROPHETS

A - Joshua - "The Lord of all the earth" giving possession of the Land.
...........................Government under Priests.


........B - Judges - Israel forsaking and returning to God; losing and regaining
..................................their position in the Land. "No king." Bethlehem.
..................................Failure under Priests.


................C - Samuel - Man's king "rejected"; God's king (David) "established."


........................D - Kings - Decline and Fall under the kings.


........................D - Isaiah - Final blessing under God's King.


................C - Jeremiah - Human kings "rejected." David's "righteous Branch" "raised up."


........B - Ezekiel - God forsaking Israel, and returning in glory, to say for
..................................ever of His Land and city "YHVH-Shammah."


A - Minor Prophets - "The Lord of all the earth" giving restored possession of
.............................................the Land, and foretelling final and unending possession.



“Every Word of God is pure; and His words, like all His works, are perfect. Perfect in order, perfect in truth, perfect in the use of number, perfect in structure.

We shall not be surprised therefore to find literary perfection as well as spiritual perfection. For there is perfection of literary form, as well as perfection of spiritual truth.

By its means the student is led to views and truths, and reflections which, without it, would never have occurred to him. And it is not too much to say that until the Correspondences of the Biblical Structure are duly recognized we shall never get a correct translation or a true interpretation of many passages which are to this day dark and confused in both our Versions, the RV as well as in the AV." – E. W. Bullinger, The Scope of a Passage may best be Discovered by its Structure, How to Enjoy the Bible

Blessings,
Love Fountain

 

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Thank you, @Love Fountain. re. reply#5

In Christ Jesus
Our risen and glorified
Saviour, Lord and Head
Chris

 

[Love Fountain]

Hello Dearly Beloved,

Bullinger called the 7 church epistles, "the School of Grace" in the notes at the bottom of the structure that appears in the Companion Bible before Romans that shows the attached structure of all 7 church epistles. In his writings he kept the order we see in the attached because of manuscript order which he said was always the same. Even though Bullinger listed and titled the following structure as Introversion with the corresponding lettering as A, A, B, B, C, C , he still illustrated it as Alternation A, B, C, A, B, C, A, but he kept the lettering text type as illustrating Introversion except for Thessalonians where he kept with Alternation ordering.

Anyone ever notice this before?




Now if we put the above 7 church epistles in the Introversion structure, we have the following and would need to apply a letter "D" for Thessalonians to truly be Introversion as follows.


GRACE

A - Romans
…B - Corinthians
……C - Galatians
………D - Thessalonians
……C - Colossians
…B - Philippians
A - Ephesians


GRACE

A - Romans -……..“Doctrine and Instruction.” The Gospel of God: never hidden,
………………….......…...but “promised afore”. God’s justification of Jew and Gentile
………………….......…...individually – dead and risen with Christ (1-8). Their relation
………………......……...dispensationally (9-11). The subjective foundation of the
……………......………...mystery (see page 1694).

……B - Corinthians -..“Reproof.” Practical failure to exhibit the teaching of
……………………….........…Romans through not seeing their standing as having
…………………….........……died and risen with Christ. “Leaven” in practice (1 Cor 5,6).

…………...C - Galatians -….“Correction.” Doctrinal failure as to the teaching of
………………….......……………...Romans. Beginning with the truth of the New nature
……………………….......………...(“spirit”), they were “soon removed” (1:6), and
………………………….......……...sought to be made perfect in the Old nature (“flesh”)
…………………………….......……(3:3). “Leaven” in doctrine (5:9).

………………….D - Thessalonians -..“Doctrine and Instruction.” Not only “dead
………………………………….........…………and risen with Christ” (as in Romans); not
………………………………….........…………only seated in the heavenlies with Christ
………………………………….........…………(as in Ephesians); but “caught up together
…………………………………….........………in the breath of life, so to be for ever with
…………………………………….........………the Lord”. In Romans, justified in Christ; in
…………………………………….........………Ephesians, sanctified in Christ; in
…………………………………….........………Thessalonians, glorified with Christ. No
………………………………….........…………“reproof”. No “correction”. All praise and
…………………………………….........……….thanksgiving. A typical Church.

…………..C - Colossians -...“Correction.” Doctrinal failure as to the teaching of
…………………………….......……Ephesians. Wrong doctrines which come from “not
……………………………….......…holding the Head” (2:19) and not seeing their
……………………………….......…completeness and perfection in Christ (2:8-10).

……B - Philippians -….“Reproof” Practical failure to exhibit the teaching of
………………………...............Ephesians in manifesting “the mind of Christ” as
………………………...............members of the one Body.

A - Ephesians -….“Doctrine and Instruction.” The mystery of God, always hidden,
………………….......…..never before revealed. Individual Jews and Gentiles gathered
………………….......…..out and made “one new man” in Christ. Seated in the
……………….......……..heavenlies with Christ.




To whosoever will, in the name of Yeshua!

God Bless,
Love Fountain

 

[Love Fountain]

Dearly Beloved,


"Preaching on another subject, Bishop Lowth truthfully and feelingly observed that "It pleased God, in His unsearchable wisdom, to suffer the progress of the Reformation to be stopped midway; and the effects of it to be greatly weakened by many unhappy divisions among the reformed."

The same may be said of the Law of Correspondence in the Structure of the Word of God, so wonderfully discovered and developed; and yet, needing to-day almost to be rediscovered, and certainly to be developed in its application to the whole Word of truth.

Parts of the world, remaining yet unexplored, are eagerly sought out without stint of labour or money. Would that the same zeal could be seen applied in the interest of this great subject.” – E.W. Bullinger, The Scope of a Passage may best be Discovered by its Structure, How to Enjoy the Bible



THE WORD was very close to being shared as one text! Bullinger's work in Appendix 1 Link Here of the Companion Bible showing forth the Hebrew Canon structure and subjects/subject matter along with how they correspond, is as he says in his writings, "rightly divided" and "the only correct order" for the Hebrew text.


How can we not consider if THE WORD in the Hebrew text is written and ordered in this way, why wouldn't YHVH our Father also write the same way in the New Covenant (NT) Greek text?

Wouldn't there also be Correspondence that appears throughout THE WORD as a whole from beginning to end, as Bullinger says, from Telescope to Microscope, as a whole text to the line answering to line?


LAW

A - Genesis
…B - Exodus
…...C - Leviticus
…B - Numbers
A - Deuteronomy


The PROPHETS

A - Joshua
…B - Judges
…...C - Samuel
……..D - Kings
……..D - Isaiah
…..C - Jeremiah
…B - Ezekiel
A - Minor Prophets


The PSALMS (WRITINGS)

A - Psalms
…B - Proverbs
…...C - Job
……...D - Song of Songs
………..E - Ruth
………….F - Lamentations
………..E - Ecclesiastes
……..D - Esther
…...C - Daniel
…B - Ezra-Nehemiah
A – Chronicles


THE WORD

A - Law
…B - The Prophets
…...C - The Psalms(writings)
……...D -
…...C -
…B -
A - Grace


Matthew
Mark
Luke
John
Acts

GRACE

A - Romans
…B - Corinthians
……C - Galatians
………D - Thessalonians
……C - Colossians
…B - Philippians
A - Ephesians

Timothy 1
Timothy 2
Titus
Philemon
Hebrews
James
Peter 1
Peter 2
John 1
John 2
John 3
Jude
Revelation


IN the name of Yeshua to whosoever will!

God Bless,
Love Fountain