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I wonder how, where, and when a Jesus who fit the bill of being the awaited Christ (Messiah) began to retroactively appear upon the scene (or stage)? The million dollar question. IMO there are two different how, where and when’s: one about Jesus appearing as the long-awaited messiah, and one about ...

Thank you Giuseppe for offering this exciting fragment. Before I discuss this text, I want to draw attention to a translation error in the OP. The phrase ‘a false prophet must come from some deceiver’ should read ‘a false gospel must come from some deceiver’ (my underlining). The author wants to sho...

Nice! I'm in the camp that James never thought that the son of man had arrived within his lifetime. And ditto for the rest of the epistles. I think Christ has been grafted into all of them. I believe the entire original movement was awaiting the first coming. Not a second coming. And if there was a...

Do you have any other serious alternative explanation about the presence of Golgotha in that point of the Gospel, seriously? Sometimes places undergo a radical change, and because of this change the place receives a corresponding new name. In our times ‘Ground Zero’ is the most renowned example of ...

Sibylline Oracles 8:198 goes as follows: αἰφνίδιος δἑ βροτοὑς ξύλινος δόμος ἀμφικαλύψῃ. Collins (in J.H. Charlesworth, The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha vol. 1, p. 423) translates this way: Suddenly a wooden house will cover men round about . He does not comment the verse, nor does C. Alexandre in h...

Part three: Discussion At the end of this overview of the signs in sun, moon, stars and sky in the New Testament and in other early Christian writings, we are able to better understand the imagery of the coming of the Son of man on a cloud. Since creation the pre-existent messiah had been present i...

Part two: table and footnotes ------ A ------ ---------------- B ------------------- ------------------- C ---------------- -------------- D ------------- -------------------- E ---------------- Source Signs in sun, moon, stars and sky; light and darkness Accompanying phenomena and information Mess...

This thread is a further elaboration of my recent ‘darkness at noon’ topic. Below I have gathered several fragments from New Testament and early Christian writings which describe signs in sun, moon, stars, sky/heavens, and unnatural light/darkness changes. These ‘signs’ information is combined with ...

Here is my quick and very literal translation of the Greek of that final verse: "This (ru)ler in the form of of that king shall come, and all the powers of this world shall come...." The text breaks off there, apparently. Ben IMO this kind of literal translation of apocalyptical texts dev...

Thank you very much, Ben. May I consider the Greek text as supporting my interpretation above? BDAG translates ίδἐα (Latin species ) as appearance , and adds ‘with focus on physical features’ and also: ‘The rendering face probably fits Mt 28:3 v.l. ’. So we encounter a ruler with a face like the emp...