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... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia AFFIRM; AFFIRMATIVES. a-fur'-ma-tivs
(diischurizomai). The verb "affirm" occurs in several passages ...
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... testify by affirmation. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. AFFIRM; AFFIRMATIVES.
a-fur'-ma-tivs (diischurizomai). The verb "affirm" occurs ...
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
AFFIRM; AFFIRMATIVES

a-fur'-ma-tivs (diischurizomai). The verb "affirm" occurs in several passages of the New Testament in the sense of "assert" Luke 22:59 Acts 12:15; Acts 25:19 pha-sko; Romans 3:8 phemi; 1Ti 17, Titus 3:8 diabebaioomai. The Hebrew does not employ affirmative particles, but gives a positive reply by either repeating the word in question or by substituting the first person in the reply for the second person in the question, or by employing the formula: "Thou hast said" or "Thou hast rightly said." The Saviour used this idiom (su eipas) when answering Judas and Caiaphas (Matthew 26:25, 64). A peculiar elegance occasionally attaches to the interpretation of the Scriptures because of their use of an affirmative and a negative together, rendering the sense more emphatic; sometimes the negative occurs first, as in Psalm 118:17: "I shall not die, but live"; sometimes the affirmative precedes, as in Isaiah 88:1: "Thou shalt die, and not bye" John 1:20 is made peculiarly emphatic because of the negative placed between two affirmatives: "And he confessed, and denied not; and he confessed, I am not the Christ."

Frank E. Hirsch

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