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ACCOMMODATION (See also:Lat. accommodare, to make See also:fit, from ad, to, cum, with, and modus, measure) , the See also:process of fitting, adapting, adjusting or supplying with what is needed (e.g. See also:housing). In See also:theology the See also:term " accommodation " is used rather loosely to describe the employment of a word, phrase, See also:sentence or See also:idea, in a context other than that in which it originally occurred; the actual wording of the See also:quotation may be modified to a greater or lesser extent. Such accommodation, though sometimes purely See also:literary or stylistic, generally has the definite purpose of instruction, and is frequently used both in the New Testament and in See also:pulpit utterances in all periods as a means of producing a reasonably accurate impression of a complicated idea in the minds of those who are for various reasons unlikely to comprehend it otherwise. There are roughly three See also:main kinds. (I) A later Biblical passage quotes from an earlier, partly as a literary See also:device, but also with a view to demonstration. Some-times it is See also:plain that the writer deliberately " accommodates " a quotation (cf. See also:John xviii. 8, 9 with xvii. 12). But New Testament quotations of Old Testament predictions are often for us accommodations—striking or forced as the See also:case may be —while the New Testament writer, " following the exegetical methods current among the See also:Jews of his See also:time, See also:Matthew ii. 15, 18, See also:xxvi. 31, See also:xxvii.

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Driver in See also:Zechariah in See also:Century See also:Bible, pp. 259, 271), puts them forward as arguments. To say that he is merely " describing a New Testament fact in Old Testament phraseology " may be true of the result rather than of his See also:design. (2) Much besidesin the Bible—parable, See also:metaphor, &c.—has, been called an " accommodation," or divine condescension to human weakness. (3) See also:German 18th-century rational-ism (see See also:APOLOGETICS) held that the Biblical writers made See also:great use of conscious accommodation—intending moral See also:common-places when they seemed to be enunciating See also:Christian dogmas. Another expression for this, used, e.g., by J. S. See also:Semler, is " See also:economy," which also occurs in the kindred sense of " reserve " (or of Disciplina Arcani—a See also:modern term for the supposed See also:early See also:Catholic See also:habit of reserving See also:esoteric truths). See also:Isaac See also:Williams on Reserve in Religious Teaching, No. 8o of Tracts for the Times, made a great sensation; see R.

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Church's comments in The See also:Oxford See also:Movement. Strictly, accommodation (2) or (3) modifies, in See also:form or in substance, the content of religious belief; reserve, from prudence or cunning, withholds See also:part. " Economy " is used in both senses.

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