Every credible reading of the text, side by side.
They read from the book… giving the sense, so that the people understood the reading.
A scholarly atlas, not a commentary.
The Bible-study market is split between confessional products (Logos, Faithlife) and generic devotionals (YouVersion, Bible Gateway). N88 fills the gap for the thoughtful reader who wants every credible interpretive view on a passage laid out side by side, fairly summarized, with sources to dig deeper.
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Every credible view
Reformed, Wesleyan, Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Pentecostal, Dispensational, Jewish, and modern critical scholarship — each represented in its own strongest form, not as a foil for the editor's preferred reading.
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Sources you can verify
Every position cites primary texts, classical commentary, or open-access scholarship. Click through and read the work yourself; we are interested in trustable footnotes, not arguments from authority.
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Editorial neutrality
N88 does not arbitrate which view is correct. We summarize each view in the language its proponents would recognize, name its strongest argument, and tag the traditions that hold it.
N88 is being built passage by passage, beginning with Genesis. New books and entries are added on a steady cadence. If a passage you care about is missing, that is a planned future entry.
Colossians 2:11-12
Circumcision of Christ and Baptism
Paul links Christian baptism to a 'circumcision made without hands … the circumcision of Christ,' raising the question of how tightly the two covenant signs are bound and what the meaning of one constrains the interpreter to say about the other.
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Ephesians 1:3-14
Blessing and Election
A single dense Greek sentence praising God for the blessings given 'in the Messiah,' anchored by the language of election, predestination, adoption, and the sealing of the Spirit. Interpreters dispute whether its election language describes a corporate, Israel-rooted incorporation in Christ or an eternal sorting of individuals.
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Ephesians 1:15-23
Prayer for Revelation and Resurrection Power
Paul's intercessory prayer for an 'unveiling' that culminates in a portrait of the risen Jesus enthroned over the powers, drawn from Psalm 110, Psalm 8, and Daniel 7. Readings differ over how to relate this cosmic enthronement to the 'fullness' of the church and to Paul's two-age cosmology.
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Ephesians 2:1-10
From Death to Life
Paul's account of how those once 'dead in transgressions' have been made alive, raised, and seated with the Messiah, climaxing in the formula of grace through faith. Interpreters debate the social versus individual register of the passage and the contours of 'grace' as gift.
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