Really?One thing that always bothers me is these synoptic don't give any trace of the temple being recently destroyed.
Cordially, Bernard
Really?One thing that always bothers me is these synoptic don't give any trace of the temple being recently destroyed.
not really. how would you write if your world had just been destroyed?Bernard Muller wrote:Really?One thing that always bothers me is these synoptic don't give any trace of the temple being recently destroyed.
Cordially, Bernard
Adam, you have done well in divining my online name Lostntym8. My first name is Timothy which only bill collectors and other agencies that desire legal names identify me by. "Lostn" is a play on my last name Lawson. "tym" on my first name Tim...and 8 is as close to an infinity symbol that I could come to. I met my wife of nearly two years online (Match.com) and she interpreted Lostntym8 as "lost intimate"...actually makes as much sense as my reason for choosing it; I like time travel stories.Adam wrote: I'm Lost,n tym, 8:
Why do you pick such a difficult slab of chapters from the most disparate of all the gospels?
Checkbox "Notify me when a reply is posted." (when you make your post)Lostntym8 wrote:On the B-Greek forum, I am notified by e-mail that a comment has been made on a post I am involved with. Is that an option here?
Are you saying "Mark" wrote his gospel in Jerusalem?not really. how would you write if your world had just been destroyed?
People in ancient Roman times did not keep track of the age that people died. If we take this as saying a generation is 120 years and the gospel writers thought Jesus died sometime around 30 C.E., a gospel writer writing in 150 would still consider it "this generation."Genesis 6:3
Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years.”
The wicked and adulterous γενεὰ that the Jesus character refers to are not just the Jews of that present time, but all Jews of any generation. In the sick minds of the NT writers, the Jews "passed away" when God destroyed the Temple in 70. So the Jesus character's prediction came true. The writers would not have been so foolish as to have their god make prophecies that did not come true.Lostntym8 wrote:Among the supposed false predictions, by Jesus, of the end of the world within the lifetime of his followers is the interesting prediction (Matthew 21 paralleled in Mark 12 and Luke 20) that "the husbandmen" of the vineyard would be "miserably destroyed" for their wickedness and then "will be let out the vineyard unto other husbandmen, who shall render him the fruits in their seasons."
This would seem to acknowledge that after the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 C.E. the work of producing fruit for the "householder" would continue in new hands and the fruits would be turned over to him in due season.
— n
1. an immeasurably long period of time; age
2. a period of one thousand million years
3. ( often capital ) gnosticism one of the powers emanating from the supreme being and culminating in the demiurge
[C17: from Greek aiōn an infinitely long time]
steve43 wrote:Generation usually means 20 years- which is the generally accepted age where a man can reproduce.
Where is your source for saying people in ancient Rome did not keep track of the age at death?
Seems a very basic human metric and for the emperors they certainly did.
The meaning of "generation" (Greek 'genea' which is NOT 'αἰῶνος') as inIt might mean that or it could mean 40 years, 70 years, 120 years, 900 years or an unspecified amount of time. Because of the ambiguity of the meaning, it cannot be used to date the gospels.
In Matthew 24, we have Jesus talking about "this generation" in answering the questions of this verse: "3As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?”
The term αἰῶνος is used for age.