Secret Codes

Resources Referenced

BECNT – Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament, Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic.

BDAG – Arndt, W., Danker, F. W., Bauer, W., & Gingrich, F. W. (2000). A Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament and other early Christian literature (3rd ed.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

BBC – MacDonald, William. (1995). Believer’s Bible Commentary: Old and New Testaments. (A. Farstad, Ed.) (p. 1575). Nashville: Thomas Nelson.

EBC – Expositor’s Bible Commentary, Gaebelein, F. E., et. al., Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House.

BTB – Wallace, D. B. (1996). Greek Grammar beyond the Basics: An Exegetical Syntax of the New Testament. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan.

Keener – Keener, C. S. (2012–2013). Acts: An Exegetical Commentary, Vol. 1 & 2: Introduction and 1:1–14:28 (Vol. 1, p. 757). Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic.

BEB – Elwell, W. A., & Beitzel, B. J. (1988). In Baker encyclopedia of the Bible. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House.

Standard Abbreviations

e.g. – “for example” (comes from the Latin, “exempli gratia”)

i.e. – “that is” (comes from Latin, “id est”)

f. or ff. – standard code for “plus following.” When this code follows a verse reference,  the reader should read the indicated verse plus the first verse (f.) or verses (ff.) following the indicated verse. The reader will determine how much of the following verses are applicable. For example, “John 20:24ff” indicates John 20:24 and the following verses, as appropriate.

References to Deity

The reader will notice that in the readings, we capitalize the first letter of direct references to Deity, being consistent with the custom of the NASB. However, it should be noted that the original Greek, in which the New Testament was written, does not make this distinction.