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Well, I've looked further and I've still not found any Christian or scholarly interpreters who understands Luke 19:27 as the words of Jesus to his disciples. It's only when read completely out of context that it can be seen as such. Stefan I can’t provide the answer you requested but I have these th...

Thanks for good replies, guys. Verse 27 is a line spoken by the character within the parable, i.e. the nobleman-turned-king, as is clear from the fact that he speaks about his enemies who "did not want me as a king". The problem is that verse 26 makes it look like that verse 27 is spoken b...

Question: Does anyone know of any interpretations of Luke 19:27 by scholars or Christians throughout history interpreting this verse as Jesus ordering his disciples to fetch the unbelievers and massacre them? 'But as for these enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them—bring them here...

For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away , not one letter, not one stroke of a letter, will pass from the law until all is accomplished. Therefore, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches others to do the same, will be called least in the kingdom of heaven; ...

Oh, the Odes... so hard to untangle. I'm actually part of a project beginning very soon where we're going to publish the first Danish translation of the Odes! So many questions. Is Christ the speaker sometimes? When? I remember seeing somewhere else the motif with Christ walking on water as walking ...

This made me think of the supposedly earliest depiciton of the crucifixion, early fifth century, Santa Sabina, Rome. Kinda looks like the prayer posture, i.e. the orans, and maybe that's intended. https://cyberdisciple.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/2594532751_221e9316bc.jpg There are no source referen...

Although not directly related to the topic at hand, perhaps we can see another parallel between the Transfiguration and the Sinai event. When Moses comes down from Sinai the faithless Israelites have created their own god, the golden calf. The parallel in gMark would be the "faithless generatio...

This is fascinating. I read your posts on the this whole thing with the Transfiguration and Peter etc with great joy, Ben! In my opinion the "after six days" is first and foremost a reference to Moses and the cloud at Sinai, Ex 24:16, and I speculate that the common denominator between res...

Interesting. Logically, anyone of Cain's descendants living in the post-deluvian world would have had to have survived the Flood somehow. Indeed. But the Bible itself already hints at survivors by having nephilim both before and after the flood, too. After the flood? Those in the promised land or s...

And of course, as the story goes we are all descendants of Seth. The descendants of Cain have made their mark on the literature in various forms. Some modern literary vampires are said to descend from Cain. And Beowulf has this: For the killing of Abel the Eternal Lord had exacted a price: Cain got...