Thursday, November 6, 2025

Book of Mormon Critical Text on “Being Filled” (with the Holy Ghost) in 3 Nephi 12:6 (cf. Matthew 5:6)

  

363 KJ Mat 5:6 || Lk 6:21a, "Blessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall be filled" || Prov 13:25, "The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul" || Rev 7:16-17, "They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more ... For the Lamb ... shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters" (|| Jn 6:35) || Gospel of Thomas 69b, "Blessed are the hungry, for the belly of him who desires will be filled" -- the Holy Spirit is Wisdom in Prov 8, Wisdom of Solomon 7 - 8, and Ecclus 24 (Skehan, Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 41:371n), and Hebrew can characterize it as a solid or liquid: cf Isa 44:3, "I will pour water on him that is thirsty and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring," 55:1-2, "every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, ..; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price .... eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness" (58:11); Jer 16:7, "give them the cup of consolation to drink"; Ps 107:5, "Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them," 9, "For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness"; Ps 17:14-15, "whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure :... As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied when I awake, with thy likeness" (LXX 16:14-15 eplesthe ... echortasthesan ... chortasthesomai = ,4:14 Lk 6:25, "Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger"; Jn;(אשבעה ... ישבעו ... תמלא "whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life" (7:37-39); 6:48,51, " I am that bread of life .... I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever"; I Cor 10:3-4, "did all eat the same spiritual meat ;... they drank of the spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ"; 12:13, "have all been made to drink into one Spirit"; I Enoch 62:2, "the spirit of righteousness has been poured out upon him"; Il Ne 27:5, Jacob 7:8, Pss 16:11, 23:5, 42:4, 90:14, 105:40, 107:5,9, Prov 1:23, 7:18, 11:25, 18:4, Isa 25:6-8, 29:10, 30:28, 32:15, 43:24, 49:10-13, 53:12, 65:13, Jer 31:25, 46:10, Ezk 39:29, Joel 2:28-29 (MT 3:1-21 !Acts 2:17-18), Amos 8:11, Zech 12:10a, Acts 2:4,38, Rev 21:6; Ecclus 16:25, 24:19,21,25; Ode of Solomon 11:6-9; Gospel of Thomas 13e, "Because you have drunk, you have become intoxicated from the bubbling spring which I have measured out" (Nag Hammadi II,2, 35:5-7); Gospel of Thomas 28b, "I found none of them thirsty" (Nag Hammadi II,2, 38:23-24; OxyPap 1:16); cf also 13:5-18 (|| Mat 6:5-18), Ps 22:26, Mat 8:11, Rev 3:20 (Messianic Banquet of Salvation). (Book of Mormon Critical Text: A Tool for Scholarly Reference, ed. Robert F. Smith, 4 vols. [3d ed.; Provo, Utah: Deep Forest Green Books, 2025], 3:950 n. 363)

 

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