[GMark] "Satanas" in Mark 3:23-27 (Khbonnell at aol.com)

Khbonnell at aol.com Khbonnell at aol.com
Sat Aug 4 15:44:07 EDT 2007


Jesus'  message in Mark 3:23-27 may be more general than as usually 
interpreted.   The base meaning of "satanas" is "adversary."  When it is understood in  
this sense, "How can one adversary cast out another?"  "By raising a  
division within his own house."  Back in verse 20 we are told, "He comes  into a 
house."  The context of this is verse 13, which is in the historic  presence, 
while the list of the disciples is in the perfect tense, ending in  verse 19.  The 
present tense is resumed at verse 20.  It can be  inferred from this 
progression of tenses that the list is and editorial  insertion into the text.

    The "house" may be a shrine dedicated to Yahveh's  Canaanite adversary, 
Baal Hadad, that Jesus had invaded, occupied at that time  by "lost children of 
Israel," who had taken to observing devotion to Canaanite  gods.  Jesus' 
efforts are to bring those out of the "sin" of apostasy,  that was warned about at 
various times during the Exodus.  (Joshua 9 has  Canaanites embedded into 
Israelite society as "hewers of wood and drawers of  water in the house of 
Yahveh.")
    This interpretation is consonant with Jesus' cry  of "Repent." (Mark 1:15)

Kenneth H. Bonnell
Los Angeles, CA

 



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