The footnote in
post #135 says:
Footnote for Lesson B.:
Some of these
trinitarian sources which admit that the Scriptures actually describe
men who represent God (judges, Israelite kings, etc.) and God's holy
angels as
gods include:
1.
Young's Analytical Concordance of the Bible, "Hints and Helps...," Eerdmans, 1978 reprint;
2.
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, #430, Hebrew & Chaldee Dict., Abingdon, 1974;
3.
New Bible Dictionary, p. 1133, Tyndale House Publ., 1984;
4.
Today's Dictionary of the Bible, p. 208, Bethany House Publ., 1982;
5.
Hastings' A Dictionary of the Bible, p. 217, Vol. 2;
6.
The New Brown-Driver-Briggs-Gesenius Hebrew-English Lexicon, p. 43, Hendrickson publ.,1979;
7.
Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament, #2316 (4.), Thayer, Baker Book House, 1984 printing;
8. The International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia, p. 132, Vol. 1; & p. 1265, Vol. 2, Eerdmans, 1984;
9.
The NIV Study Bible, footnotes for Ps. 45:6; Ps. 82:1, 6; & Jn 10:34; Zondervan, 1985;
10.
New American Bible, St. Joseph ed., footnote for Ps. 45:7, 1970 ed.;
11. A. T. Robertson,
Word Pictures, Vol. 5, pp. 188-189;
12. William G. T. Shedd,
Dogmatic Theology, Vol. 1, pp. 317, 324, Nelson Publ., 1980 printing;
13. Murray J. Harris,
Jesus As God, p. 202, Baker Book House, 1992;
14. William Barclay,
The Gospel of John, V. 2, Daily Study Bible Series, pp. 77, 78, Westminster Press,1975;
15.
The New John Gill Exposition of the Entire Bible (
John 10:34 & Ps. 82:6);
16.
The Fourfold Gospel (Note for
John 10:35);
17.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jamieson, Fausset, Brown (
John 10:34-36);
18.
Matthew Henry Complete Commentary on the Whole Bible (Ps. 82:6-8 and
John 10:35);
19.
John Wesley's Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible (Ps. 82:1).
20.
Theological Dictionary of the New Testament ('Little Kittel'), - p. 328, Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1985.
21.
The Expositor’s Greek Testament, pp. 794-795, Vol. 1, Eerdmans Publishing Co.
22.
The Amplified Bible, Ps. 82:1, 6 and
John 10:34, 35, Zondervan Publ., 1965.
23.
Barnes' Notes on the New Testament,
John 10:34, 35.
24. B. W. Johnson's
People's New Testament,
John 10:34-36.
25.
The New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology, Zondervan, 1986, Vol. 3, p. 187.
26.
Fairbairn’s Imperial Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. 24, vol. III, Zondervan, 1957 reprint.
27.
Theological Dictionary, Rahner and Vorgrimler, p. 20, Herder and Herder, 1965.
28. Pastor Jon Courson,
The Gospel According to John.
29.
Vincent’s New Testament Word Studies,
John 10:36.
(Also
John 10:34, 35 -
CEV: TEV; GodsWord; The Message; NLT; NIRV)
And, of course the highly respected and highly popular Hellenic Jewish writer, Philo, had the same understanding for
theos about the same time the NT was written. - See my LOGOS study.
And the earliest Christians like the highly respected NT scholar Origen and others - - including Tertullian; Justin Martyr; Hippolytus; Clement of Alexandria; Theophilus; the writer of "The Epistle to Diognetus"; and even super-Trinitarians
St. Athanasius and
St. Augustine - - also had this understanding that a man (or an angel) can be called "a god" in a righteous sense. And, as we saw above, many respected NT scholars of this century agree. For example, “The reason why judges are called ‘gods’ in Ps 82 [quoted by Jesus in
John 10:34] is that they have the office of administering God’s judgment as ‘sons of the Most High’. …. On the other hand, Jesus fulfilled the role of a true judge as
a ‘god’ and ‘son of the Most High’” -
The New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology, Zondervan, 1986, Vol. 3, p. 187.
