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A couple early writings that cite segments of Mark 16:9-20 are Tatian's Diatessaron and Irenaeus' Against Heresies. The Diatessaron was probably composed during the mid to late second century. A comparison of sections 53.25ff. and 55.3ff. with Mark 16:9-20 suggests that Tatian was familiar with a co...

was Jesus claiming to be the 'I am/Yahweh' of Exodus 3? Or is Jesus claiming to be the one who's day Abraham rejoiced that he would see- namely the Messiah, the promised Abrahamic seed (singular Gal. 3), that Abraham was looking forward to by faith. which was enough to warrant stoning seemingly at ...

StevenD wrote: Who in their right mind could see God as a throne anyway? Paidion wrote: Everyone! Once he understands what I pointed out in an earlier post. The throne of a king is the symbol of the king's authority. For God to be your throne forever figuratively means that God is your authority fo...

Hi Paidion, Fortunately, Mark features more than one language by which to convey what he meant. Mark 13:34 grants the luxury of working with both the Aramaic transliteration and the Greek (not to mention the Hebrew parent text from Psalm 22). The Aramaic is usually written as something like "Eloi, E...

Isn't this matter addressed at the following thread?

https://theos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=5999

The following quote from Justin Martyr was cited as support for an early Christian reference to "begetting before the ages": From the womb, before the morning star, have I begotten Thee. The Lord hath sworn, and will not repent:Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek. (Justin—Dialo...

Hi Paidion, Thanks for your time and thoughts. You cited and said the following: Peter opens his second epistle with a phrase that identifies Jesus Christ as [the] God. I don't think he does. If he did, he would be contradicting the words that Jesus addressed to His Father in prayer: And this is ete...

Although I don't know of any examples in John's Gospel, Peter opens his second epistle with a phrase that identifies Jesus Christ as [the] God. In 2 Pet. 1:1 the article is used with "our God and savior Jesus Christ". As the phrase is all in the same case, the case necessarily links [the] God with J...

Thanks for the encouragement, Steve and Si! While time constraints don't always allow me to spent a lot of time on the forum, we continue to marvel as chronic listeners of the radio program. The least I can do is try to interact on the forum to stay in touch...

Gratefully,
Stevend

Hi Si, At risk of erring on the side of the more humane, one might literally translate 2 Sam. 12:31 as: ..."and he brought out the people that were in it [i.e. the city], and he set/placed [them] with/at the saw and at the cutting implements of iron and with iron blades. And he brought them over by ...