(Person 1): Yeah, wassup witchu man

(Person 2): Ah, wassup witchu bruh

(Person 1): Yeah I noticed you reading your Bible and everything, that's raw

(Person 2): Ah, amen bruh

(Person 1): But I just wanna know, have you ever heard of hermeneutics

(Person 2): Hermeneutics?

(Person 1): Yeah, Hermeneutics!

(Person 2): Nah, what's that, maine

(Person 1): Well it's simply, uh, the art and science of biblical interpretation

(Person 2): Ah okay, okay

(Person 1): And it's very beneficial if you learn how to do it, you know what I'm saying?

The first task of the interpreter is called exegesis

(Extra Jesus?) Naw I said exegesis man

It’s a Latin word, don’t be scared

Matter of fact I laughed when I first heard it too

It’s spelled e-x-e-g-e-s-i-s

Guarantee you learn this process and you’ll be blessed

Exegesis is the careful systematic

Study of Scripture, for the Christian this should be a habit

But to discover the original intended meaning

Of the author to his audience is exegeting

But to do this man you need some tools

So let me recommend a couple of things you should use

Aight cool, first man you need this book

It’s called a commentary and it helps you to further look

Into some essential things that you need to check

In order for you to properly interpret the text

With this skill this should keep you from heresy

And keep you from going through theological therapy

The words of God will change your life

If you keep the text in its context

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You need some more books, I know it’s getting scary

But you need some definitions, get a Bible dictionary

To go without these tools you can’t afford it

That’s why you need this book called a concordance

And every time you start to think this is too much to do

I recommend you reflect on 2 Timothy 2

And 15 and you will see what I mean

Simply because the serpent is lurking to glean those who don’t read

And those who don’t study to keep a lock on this treasure

From unlocking the pleasure cause God’s words are lovely

That’s why we handle it as precious as pearls

To let our exegetical work reflect to the world

In accuracy, hoping that you happy to see

The very words God breathed handled accurately

So many now take texts out of context

And come up with mess and more nonsense

What you don’t wanna do is called eisegesis

(Icy Jesus?) Naw I said eisegesis man

You a silly dude, it’s Latin too

And that’s just the act of when you adding to

Or the process of reading one’s own meaning

Into the text and that’s just eisegeting

Don’t fret, I know these words are new

And phrases too, but it’s cool if you go back to school

It’s spelled e-i-s-e-g-e-s-i-s

Guarantee you learn this process and God’ll be vexed

A text can never mean what it never meant before

To its original readers or authors

So if you run into a difficult passage

And you know the Bible never contradicts itself

Then turn the pages to a parallel passage

And just let the Scriptures interpret itself