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ACCOMMODATION (Lat. accommodare, to make fit, from ad, to, cum, with, and modus, measure) , the process of fitting, adapting, adjusting or supplying with what is needed (e.g. housing). In theology the term
accommodation " is used rather loosely to describe the employment of a word, phrase, sentence or idea, in a context other than that in which it originally occurred; the actual wording of the quotation
accommodation , though sometimes purely literary or stylistic, generally has the definite purpose of instruction, and is frequently used both in the New Testament and in 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 main kinds. (I) A later Biblical passage quotes from an earlier, partly as a literary device, but also with a view to demonstration. Some-times it is plain that the writer deliberately " accommodates " a quotation
Matthew
design . (2) Much besidesin the Bibleparable, metaphor, &c.has, been called an " accommodation," or divine condescension to human weakness. (3) German 18th-century rational-ism (see APOLOGETICS) held that the Biblical writers made great
economy
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great
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Movement
from prudence or cunning, withholds part. " Economy
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