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Sunday August 11, 2002

exegete \EK-suh-jeet\, noun:
A person who explains or interprets difficult parts of written works.

All the things said in this passage are clear and should be paid attention to, without an exegete interpreting.
-- Galen, "Commentary on Hippocrates", On the Nature of Man

He is far more a man of prayer, a witness, a confessor and a prophet, than a learned exegete and close thinking scholastic.
-- Adolf Deissmann, Paul, A Study in Social and Religious History

exegete is from Greek exegetes, from the verb exegeisthai, "to interpret," and is related to exegesis.

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