From: Alexander Kyrychenko (
Date: Thu Sep 03 1998 - 14:52:03 EDT

At 11:56 PM 9/2/98 -0500, Erl Morrell-Stinson wrote:

<<Non-instrumentalists argue that PSALLO is an exclusive word that means
is wrong for us to sing praises to the accompaniment of the instrument. A
few questions:


mentioning singing to the accompaniment of instruments. What is the
Septuagint translate the original? Are the words used for singing variants

of PSALLO? This is the question I really want answered! If they are, then

it can easily be demonstrated that PSALLO is not an exclusive word and is
in fact much like our English word "sing" -- limited in meaning, but
applied broadly in its actual usage.

c) Does anyone have any other thoughts about the validity or folly of the
argument presented in general?>>


The dogmatic approach, which can be discribed as "a view of the NT
Scripture which sees it as an arsenal of proof-texts to be arranged,
without much regard given to their literary form, historical context,
theological purpose, or even their best translation into modern English, to
form a network of probative evidence" (Ralph P. Martin in 'NT
Interpretation') is not the one to be taken for or against the argument.

Best regards,

Alexander Kyrychenko.

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