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NASB | Luke 17:36 ["Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other will be left."] |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Luke 17:36 ["Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other will be left."] |
Subject: WHERE are they taken? |
Bible Note: Dear CDBJ, Thieme looks like a good preacher. I'll enjoy examining that site further. Thank you! I still can't find anyone -- Thieme or otherwise -- who corroborates your Hebrew idiom idea. (I had, however, come across Emmaus' preterist interpretation.) Sorry, CDBJ, you may have better reason than any of the rest of us poor sods out here to make the idiom assertion, I do not know. I just can't find anyone who has agreed with you (in writing anyway) on this point. On the other hand, eagles were an unclean animal. (There are four varieties known to the Middle East, but I cannot confirm that any one of them was the variety that the Roman's chose as their symbol. Nor can I confirm that Christ had one particular variety in mind.) When we see the word "eagle" in scripture we need to be careful not to assume our own American connotations regarding the bird. We should probably think more along the lines of buzzards. I find a repeated reference to the appearance of these birds very shortly after something dies. They have an almost uncanny sense that draws them from far away to the scene of death. (This is probably part of what made them distasteful to the Jew over and above their having been placed on the unclean list in the Law.) Note that the eagles do not show up to do the killing, but rather they gather as a consequence of the killing having already taken place. (Which, in my mind, weakens the whole 70 AD thing.) There are other negative connotations in scripture associated with birds. In Him, Doc PS If you find someplace I've missed regarding the body/eagle idiom, please let me know. |