study of the biblical monster Leviathan by sketching its ancient Near Eastern background; offering detailed analysis of several biblical and post-biblical texts and images; and elucidating its cultural and theological meaning from the perspective of systematic theology, political theology, and missiology....
The meaning of a Bible in a dream often depends on one’s religious upbringing. Can indicate insight (revealed knowledge), “good news,” tradition, or even intolerance (“Bible thumpers”). The Bible is often used metaphorically to describe authoritative publications in other realms, as in th...
Christ is the Lord of the sabbath. The simple, clear and obvious meaning of this is that He who is the Christ of God instituted the church, fulfilled the sabbath, dispensed with the sabbath, and abrogated the sabbath, in exactly the same way and to exactly the same degree as he did al...
John of Kronstadt “It is a fact, brothers and sisters, that the path of the saints in this life is one full of troubles. They either endure the pain of longing for that which is to come, like the one who said, ‘Woe is me that I have such a long pilgrimage’ (Pslam 120:5, ...
The Greek word is “hilasterion” which means appeasing or expiating. Another meaning for the word propitiation can also be mercy-seat. Paul when writing to the Romans expounded on why the wrath of God would fall on all of mankind who suppress the truth in unrighteousness.He also makes th...
And the answer is that Jesus broke sabbath law only in the sense of breaking human tradition regarding sabbath law (cf. Matt. 12:1-8; 15:9). So, in John 5:18 the meaning is that Jesus broke what the Jews thought was sabbath law (but which, in fact, was not). Now, we are ...
This is a new and expanded edition of a book first published in English in 1988. The author, who has extensive and ecumenical experience of church life in Latin America, presents a series of reflections on biblical texts. His intention is not to contrast one historical mindsetJohn Armes...
Paul could scarcely have written the Epistle to the Hebrews, and his disciple Dionysius adduced linguistic grounds for rejecting the Apocalypse as a work of St. John. The Fathers saw in every sentence of the Scripture a pregnant oracle of God. Apparent contradictions and other difficulties were ...
they had received, but because of their untransformed mindset and lifestyle, they would be incapable of understanding both the true inner meaning of these Sacred Scriptures, or what Paul portrayed as the Mysteries of God that would be rejected as "foolishness" by "natural" mind of organic man...
Biblical literature - Fourth Gospel, John, Gospel: John is the last Gospel and, in many ways, different from the Synoptic Gospels. The question in the Synoptic Gospels concerns the extent to which the divine reality broke into history in Jesus’ coming,