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In what specific ways are an exegetical statement and a hermeneutical statement of a Bible passage different? In what way must the two statements be the same?
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Exegetical: Original meaning to original audience.
Hermeneutical: Meaning to reader in their context.
The passage can never me an what it never meant – the meaning must be essentially the same. -
A exegetical statement is how we interpret what the writer was telling his original readers where as a hermeneutical statement is where we state how that passage applies to modern times. They must agree on what God is saying in that passage.
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An exegetical statement is an attempt to explain what is in the text. A hermeneutical statement is an attempt to explain what we should do because of what’s in the text. The unifying bond between these two kinds of statements if reflected in the axiom, “All Scripture is not written TO us, but it is all written FOR us.”
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EXOS G6 of a passage tells is the meaning to the original reader where hermeneutics of a passage tells us how to apply it to our lives today. The hermeneutics does not change the original meaning it only translate it into today’s culture.
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The exegetical statement states the author’s intended understanding for the original audience. Whereas, the hermeneutical statement articulates how the original meaning is applicable to our contemporary world and our particular lives. The hermeneutical statements may vary, because there are often several applications of principles. However, there is to be no discrepancy on the exegetical statement. There was a specific intention. This is our first work; to identify it.
