Post by Mark on Sept 9, 2009 3:54:10 GMT -8
Ye stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, [with] all the men of Israel, Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that [is] in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water: That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the LORD thy God, and into his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day:
(Deu 29:10-12)
Calvin thought he was had something unique when he established the treatise "the priesthood of the believer." He had based it upon Paul’s teaching in 1st Corinthians 12:12-20.
For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also [is] Christ. For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether [we be] Jews or Gentiles, whether [we be] bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. For the body is not one member, but many. If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? If the whole body [were] an eye, where [were] the hearing? If the whole [were] hearing, where [were] the smelling? But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him. And if they were all one member, where [were] the body? But now [are they] many members, yet but one body.
(1Co 12:12-20)
Little was he aware that Paul got it from
. It has been a fundamental teaching in Judaism from the very beginning.
The hearing, the understanding, the personal ownership of the Scriptures is not kept away safely in the theological schools, monasteries and yeshivas. Moses spoke to the captians, the elders, the officers, all the men of Israel, the wives, the little ones and the hewers of wood and drawers of water equally.
It may be significant that Moses would mention the hewers of wood and the drawers of water as distinct from the men and women of Israel. This is a role that would later be taken on by the Gibeonites: gentiles (Joshua 9:9-27). Such would be yet another evidence that is intended for all, dismissing the notion that Adonai holds a different standard for the gentile as for the ethnic Jew.
One must pause and wonder what Moses must have meant by verse 15:
Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath; But with [him] that standeth here with us this day before the LORD our God, and also with [him] that [is] not here with us this day:
(Deu 29:14-15)
We may wonder if it is upon this context that Messiah declares,
And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, [and] one shepherd.
(Joh 10:16)
The sages have not much to say regarding Deuteronomy 29:15-16. Who is it that is standining "with us" (Israel)? Who could he be referencing that is standing "not here with us?" Could this not be the same idea that Paul would be speaking of in Romans 3:19.
Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
(Rom 3:19)
The covenant with God upon the people Israel directly falls upon God’s relationship with all the rest of the world.
(Deu 29:10-12)
Calvin thought he was had something unique when he established the treatise "the priesthood of the believer." He had based it upon Paul’s teaching in 1st Corinthians 12:12-20.
For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also [is] Christ. For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether [we be] Jews or Gentiles, whether [we be] bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. For the body is not one member, but many. If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? If the whole body [were] an eye, where [were] the hearing? If the whole [were] hearing, where [were] the smelling? But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him. And if they were all one member, where [were] the body? But now [are they] many members, yet but one body.
(1Co 12:12-20)
Little was he aware that Paul got it from
. It has been a fundamental teaching in Judaism from the very beginning. The hearing, the understanding, the personal ownership of the Scriptures is not kept away safely in the theological schools, monasteries and yeshivas. Moses spoke to the captians, the elders, the officers, all the men of Israel, the wives, the little ones and the hewers of wood and drawers of water equally.
It may be significant that Moses would mention the hewers of wood and the drawers of water as distinct from the men and women of Israel. This is a role that would later be taken on by the Gibeonites: gentiles (Joshua 9:9-27). Such would be yet another evidence that
is intended for all, dismissing the notion that Adonai holds a different standard for the gentile as for the ethnic Jew. One must pause and wonder what Moses must have meant by verse 15:
Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath; But with [him] that standeth here with us this day before the LORD our God, and also with [him] that [is] not here with us this day:
(Deu 29:14-15)
We may wonder if it is upon this context that Messiah declares,
And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, [and] one shepherd.
(Joh 10:16)
The sages have not much to say regarding Deuteronomy 29:15-16. Who is it that is standining "with us" (Israel)? Who could he be referencing that is standing "not here with us?" Could this not be the same idea that Paul would be speaking of in Romans 3:19.
Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
(Rom 3:19)
The covenant with God upon the people Israel directly falls upon God’s relationship with all the rest of the world.
