Interplanner
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Why not just look at what scripture says, and then go from there? Skip the commentaries entirely...
The commentaries ARE ABOUT WHAT SCRIPTURE SAYS but they bring years of resources at their disposal. Many of them with many visits to the sites they are talking about. To the best research on those sites. To best language lexicons. You can tell when they don't have a high view of Scripture and discern that.
All you are showing is that you don't think it is a science to dig out this stuff.
I've done some work like that, presented papers to editors of major commentary series when they were professors at the graduate school I attended. There is nothing noble about sticking up your nose at good scholarship and ignoring it and make 'champions' out of it. You will always be rewarded.
The whole problem/blindspot here is you have an industry called 2P2P started by Chafer to make people "need" Dis'm because 'the Bible is a set of confusing messages' (there's a quote of him on that), and then it goes an invents an enemy to polarize support for itself. The enemy is RT and the wicked thing about it is how many people cannot see that Gal 3:17 is the RT we need to be concerned about, not Chafer's. You need to get this detangled, because it really wrecks a lot of passages.
Today's: STP fanatically quotes 'we do not yet see all things subject to him' to "prove" that Christ does not reign now. yet the same passage (I Cor 15) says on either side of that that he is reigning now and will reign until death is vanquished. It is the usual 'now but not yet' found everywhere in the NT, but the immature take the 'not yet' and bleat that we can't be in Christ's kingdom yet, no matter what Col 1 etc says.
I've worked for two years here just on mistakes people make fighting over English WHEN THE ORIGINALS ARE NOT IN ENGLISH!!! I hope I haven't wasted too much time.