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1 | Apostolic Proof-texting? | John 7:18 | EdB | 86215 | ||
Just Read Mark I see Tim has already answered you and I agree with what he said. However let me add, there is another trap we can fall into when handling scripture. That trap is dismissing scripture or explaining it away, as addressing a situation that doesn’t exist today. Today many take great pleasure in explaining what the writer was "really" saying. Verses that I believe should be read and understood for what they say, many times are discounted by those that say, "the author was addressing a certain situation that existed at that time. This admonishment doesn't pertain to the church today." To that I say, "baloney!!!" I think anytime you say, “what God really meant was …” Your corrupting scripture. The Bible is timeless if there was a reason to address the situation then, I believe the admonishment still pertains to us today. To say this admonishment only pertained to them because of a certain situation is modifying scripture not explaining it. To the situation of what you call “strange readings” where a verse is used to point to Jesus, but within context addresses something entirely different. Within the Bible there often times a duplicity of meaning, there is a word for it that slips my mind. However in every case of this duplicity of meaning the alternate or less obvious meaning always pointed to the coming Messiah and not doctrine or used as proof of a new teaching. I agree with Tim that the Holy spirit then enlightened the mind to reveal this alternate reading. Once again man has tried to find these passages, and many have profited handsomely (writing books/giving lectures) from inventing or suggesting such occurrences. However I think all the important ones had already been quoted in the Bible, as you mentioned, accomplished, as Tim mentioned, through the enlightenment of the Holy Spirit. What man tries to do today is find or suggest “MYSTERY” rather than LIVE THE LIFE. EdB |
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2 | Apostolic Proof-texting? | John 7:18 | Emmaus | 86227 | ||
EdB, "Within the Bible there often times a duplicity of meaning, there is a word for it that slips my mind." I think the word your are looking for is polyvalent or multiple levels of interpretation or senses of scriptural meaning. Duplicitous usually implies lying or deceiving. " The Senses of Scripture" 117 The spiritual sense. Thanks to the unity of God's plan, not only the text of Scripture but also the realities and events about which it speaks can be signs. 1. The allegorical sense. We can acquire a more profound understanding of events by recognizing their significance in Christ; thus the crossing of the Red Sea is a sign or type of Christ's victory and also of Christian Baptism.[84] 2. The moral sense. The events reported in Scripture ought to lead us to act justly. As St. Paul says, they were written "for our instruction".[85] 3. The anagogical sense (Greek: anagoge, "leading"). We can view realities and events in terms of their eternal significance, leading us toward our true homeland: thus the Church on earth is a sign of the heavenly Jerusalem.[86] 118 A medieval couplet summarizes the significance of the four senses: The Letter speaks of deeds; Allegory to faith; The Moral how to act; Anagogy our destiny.[87] 119 "It is the task of exegetes to work, according to these rules, towards a better understanding and explanation of the meaning of Sacred Scripture in order that their research may help the Church to form a firmer judgement. For, of course, all that has been said about the manner of interpreting Scripture is ultimately subject to the judgement of the Church which exercises the divinely conferred commission and ministry of watching over and interpreting the Word of God."[88] But I would not believe in the Gospel, had not the authority of the Catholic Church already moved me.[89]" 84 Cf. I Cor 10:2. 85 I Cor 10:11; cf. Heb 3:1 -4:11. 86 Cf. Rev 21:1 - 22:5. 87 Lettera gesta docet, quid credas allegoria, moralis quid agas, quo tendas anagogia. 88 DV 12 # 3. 89 St. Augustine, Contra epistolam Manichaei 5, 6: PL 42, 176. The Catechism of the Catholic Church Emmaus |
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