From: Ben Crick (ben.crick@argonet.co.uk)
Date: Wed Jan 28 1998 - 19:41:54 EST
On Wed 28 Jan 98 (21:51:04 +0800), scox@chinaonline.com.cn.net wrote:
> What examples of this use of MH MOU hAPTOU do Hendriksen or
> Westcott cite? Any from LXX?
>
> Myself I don't have the problem with a reading consistent
> with other NT uses of hAPTOMAI. (Yes the idea of objecting
> to being touched is odd, sure, but so is Luke 8:44-47...)
Hullo Steven,
As I said, I don't have Westcott on the Greek text to hand. My BAG lexicon
has a lengthy entry s.v. hAPTW, hAPTOMAI. It says "... MH MOU hAPTOU /stop
clinging to me!/ [longish list of authorities snipped] J 20:17...". If you
don't have BAG try Strong's 680 and 681.
I don't think Jesus ascended to the Father until Acts 1:9; but I have heard
attempts to discern a multiple ascension based on John 20:17.
In Jacob's vision of the Ladder set up from earth to heaven he saw angels
ascending and descending on it (Genesis 28:12). John 1:51 says "...ye shall
see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the
Son of man". I take this to mean that Jesus is the Ladder by which we may
ascend into heaven; but some might allege that this 'ascending and
descending' could point to a multiple ascension/descent? No; I don't think
so.
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