🇬🇧 Glory be to Jesus Christ! 🌞
Continuation of yesterday’s reading:
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As for Abraham’s body, this refers to the birth of Isaac, the heir of promise, to him and Sarah.
Verse 14 implies that if the Law, and not faith, takes precedence
over the promise, then the subsequent ordinances of the Law are of
greater importance than the promise and faith, and thus they would be
as if they were unnecessary
. But not so – faith and promise are more
important than the Law and precede it.
Nevertheless, the Law is also from God, which is why Abraham is
called the father of many nations
and where God’s generosity is also
evident.
As for the comparison between Abraham’s faith and the faith of Christians, in the time of the Apostle Paul, Christianity was not widespread, not traditional, and everyone believed in their freedom, just as Abraham believed, although according to human reasoning and standards, he should not have believed in it. But even now, the deep faith of Christians is not just a tradition or common to many. Therefore, the comparison, although times have changed, remains entirely valid. Indeed, faith in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ and the faith of Abraham are similar.
Matthew VII, 23 – ‘εμου’ – ‘emou’ – (from) ‘Me’.
A continuation of yesterday’s reading, with verse 21 read on two
consecutive days. See this link for more information:
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Matthew VII, 22 – in the original, Your name
is in the dative case.
In ancient Greek, there was no ablative case; its functions were
performed by other cases, including the dative. So the literal
translation of Is not (to or by) Your name?
remains multivalent. It
can mean the same as the traditional translation in the ablative case,
but it can also indicate that people thought that their actions would
bring glory and honour to the name of Christ. If they (in parallel,
unrepentantly) committed lawlessness, i.e., went against God’s will, in
particular, and above all, against God’s revealed and known will, then
they did not bring glory to Christ, but they are not like Moses either
(the Law of Moses says of him that the Lord knows him by name
). I
wrote about a similar line of thought in relation to 3 John:
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Therefore, the Lord calls everyone to repentance. He came to know
and to save that which was lost
.
Glory be to Thee, our God, glory be to Thee!