Thursday, February 25, 2021

George Reynolds and Janne M. Sjodahl on 1 Nephi 13:28

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In their commentary on the Book of Mormon, George Reynolds and Janne M. Sjodahl offered the following commentary on 1 Nephi 13:28, arguing i...
Tuesday, February 23, 2021

Interesting Insights in Collin Cornell, ed., Divine Doppelgängers: YHWH’s Ancient Look-Alikes (Eisenbrauns, 2020)

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    The HB is not an unambiguously monotheistic book, and neither is the religion in ancient Israel to be seen as fully monotheistic. The ...
Sunday, February 21, 2021

Origen and Certain "Divine Mysteries" only being accessible to mature Christians

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    All these things—to take the Psalm, to give a drum and so on, and to do what has been said already—are ordinances to Israel, to the on...

Origen on 1 Corinthians 8:5 in his Commentary on the Psalms

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    First one must keep in mind the Apostle’s words, howe he did indeed say somewhere, “There are so-called gods either in heaven or on ea...

Origen Touching upon the Eucharist in his Commentary on the Psalter

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    Next is a figurative expression; who cannot allegorize? Say, you who are stumbling and not reckoning that we should say these things f...

Origen: God (the Father) Can Choose to become Spatially Present

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    The rest of this passage is “ God in his holy place ” (Ps 67.6b. The stumbling block in this statement is the ascription of a “place” ...

Origen on αιων/αιωνος denoting a very long time, but not "eternal" in the modern understanding

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    “I reviewed the ancient days, and I remembered the eonic years, and I took care ” (Ps 76.16). One who wants to be helped also consider...