Corpus-Paul

["Chris Cutler" <Chrisc AT powercall.co.uk>]

> 
> >From: "Chris Cutler" 
> 
> >Earlier, on page 308 he associates the Rechabite Malachias with 
> 
> >possible priestly duties, and perhaps this triggered the thought     
> >of the slave Malchus with the sliced off ear (thus rendering him 
> >ineligible to officiate as a priest, if he was one).

>George Blaisdell : 
> Is this a reference to John 18:10?  Or exegetically relevant to it? 
> [vis-a-vis the meaning of the slave's ear being sliced off by Peter, 
> and then restored by Jesus?]
> 
Chris:
John 18:10 is the only reference to Malchus I know of in the NT, all the
others describe the incident without mentioning the name. I have not read
of any exegesical parallels has anyone else?

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Chris Cutler
"Auditeur Libre"

What liberates is the knowledge of who we were, what we became; where we
were, whereinto we have been thrown; whereto we speed, wherefrom we are
redeemmed; what birth is, and what rebirth." (Exc. Theod. 78.2)