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- From: "Peter Kirk" <Peter_Kirk AT sil.org>
- To: "Karl Ivan Baca" <bacai AT usa.net>, "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: RE: Is this a rock or not? I Would like to know
- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 00:23:36 -0000
This New Testament verse is certainly an interesting example of ancient
interpretation of the Hebrew Bible. But I would take Paul's point not as a
reference to a literal moving rock. Rather his meaning is more like this:
Their physical sustenance was water from the physical rocks which Moses
smote; but their spiritual sustenance was from a spiritual Rock, as YHWH is
commonly called in the Psalms, and Paul identifies this Rock with the
Messiah. This identification may seem odd apart from the context: Paul is
warning the Corinthian Christians, who considered themselves to be sustained
by the Messiah Jesus of Nazareth, even by symbolically drinking his blood in
the Communion (10:16), that receiving spiritual sustenance is no guarantee
of pleasing God and not coming under his judgment.
Peter Kirk
-----Original Message-----
From: Karl Ivan Baca [mailto:bacai AT usa.net]
Sent: 12 February 2001 13:09
To: Biblical Hebrew
Subject: Is this a rock or not? I Would like to know
Shalom every one, and shevuat Tov
<snip>
Then 1Cr 10:4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank
of
that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Messiah.
Do you think that this was an actual Rock? Do you think was just a by word?
Do
you believe that this story actually happen? I would like to hear your
oppion.
Please.
<snip>
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Is this a rock or not? I Would like to know,
Karl Ivan Baca, 02/12/2001
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- RE: Is this a rock or not? I Would like to know, Peter Kirk, 02/13/2001
- Re: Is this a rock or not? I Would like to know, Tsadowq, 02/14/2001
- Re: Is this a rock or not? I Would like to know, Charles David Isbell, 02/14/2001
- Re: Is this a rock or not? I Would like to know, Ausra Pazera, 02/15/2001
- Re: Is this a rock or not? I Would like to know, Dave Washburn, 02/15/2001
- Re: Is this a rock or not? I Would like to know, Dave Washburn, 02/15/2001
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Re: Is this a rock or not? I Would like to know,
Charles David Isbell, 02/15/2001
- Re: Is this a rock or not? I Would like to know, Dave Washburn, 02/15/2001
- RE: Is this a rock or not? I Would like to know, Liz Fried, 02/15/2001
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Re: Is this a rock or not? I Would like to know,
Cindy Smith, 02/15/2001
- Re: Is this a rock or not? I Would like to know, Charles David Isbell, 02/15/2001
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