Jonathan Robie wrote: > > At 08:44 AM 10/6/97 -0500, Jeffrey Gibson wrote: > > > >Doubtless others will have responded by now, but Hermas is divided into > >two sections, Mandate being one of them. If you get a text of Hermas and > >open it up, all will be clear. > > Thanks - I found it on the web at > "http://www.loxinfo.co.th/~baruch/hermas1.html#mandate1": > > Mandate the First > > "First of all, BELIEVE THAT GOD IS ONE, even He Who created all things and > set them in order, and brought all things from non-existence into being, Who > comprehends all things, being alone incomprehensible. Believe Him therefore, > and fear Him, and in this fear be continent. Keep these things, and you will > cast off all wickedness from yourself, and will clothe yourself with every > excellence of righteousness, and will live to God, if you keep this > commandment." > > Jonathan > > *************************************************************************** > Jonathan Robie jwrobie@mindspring.com http://www.mindspring.com/~jwrobie > POET Software, 3207 Gibson Road, Durham, N.C., 27703 http://www.poet.com > ***************************************************************************
Jonathan;
I gleaned the subject line from another list but it raises a b-greek
issue. Are we justified in Rev. 21:21 in assuming that the writer wanted
to assert that each gate was (made) of one pearl? BAG seems to suggest
in their article that EIMI+EK can be rendered "belongs to one pearl".
There seems to be a chiasmus based on 12 and multiples of 12 going on in
the dimensions of the celestial city and thus 12 inscribed tribal
names//twelve gates of pearl?? Any thoughts on the grammar or the
symbolic significance of the dimensions would be appreciated.
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