Quotes about Context

While Jesus was in Bethany in the home of Simon the Leper,

This was the first census to take place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.

The Jews answered Him, “Are we not right to say that You are a Samaritan and You have a demon?”

At that, Paul left the Areopagus.

In what context was it credited? Was it after his circumcision, or before? It was not after, but before.

Do I say this from a human perspective? Doesn’t the Law say the same thing?

Once organizational health is properly understood and placed into the right context, it will surpass all other disciplines in business as the greatest opportunity for improvement and competitive advantage.

She is skilled at communicating the 'context' for her comments with the goal of ensuring understanding.

If we were talking about Europe in 1000, or most of the third world today, the standard misquotation would be spot on.

This means we do not ignore the particularity of biblical commands (and apply them to our own day as if they were timeless universals). Nor are we paralysed by their particularity (and thus unable to apply them to our day at all). We rejoice in their particularity because it shows us how the will of God was expressed in their context, and we take them as our paradigm for our own ethical construction.21

So then, we must not read Lamentations without the rest of the Bible. But equally, we should not read the rest of the Bible without Lamentations (as Christians have habitually tended to do).

Factually and objectively, however, nothing is indifferent, neither in nature, nor in the state, nor in science and art. All things, even the most humble, have their specific place and meaning in the context of the whole. Human beings are indifferent only to what they do not, or do not sufficiently, know; they automatically assess and appreciate what they do know. God, who knows all things, is not indifferent to anything.