So the my point is that the following explanation:
...is the teaching given to the outsiders, the stupid hoi polloi.
While the teaching given to the insiders is the following:
(Paul-Louis Couchoud, Le dieu Jésus, original cursive)
..since the words:
...are perfectly resumed by:
32 And I, when I am lifted up from the earth [= crucified in Heaven], will draw all people to myself [=in heaven].”
He said this to show the kind of death he was going to die.
...is the teaching given to the outsiders, the stupid hoi polloi.
While the teaching given to the insiders is the following:
Where in the history has the death-resurrection of Jesus to be fixed? It was natural to place it at the end of the times, just before the Christophanies accorded to Peter, the Twelve, the five hundred brothers of Jerusalem. It will be difficult now to keep it above the earth. Why would it not take place on earth? The author of Hebrews, an idealist if ever there was one, does not reach this conclusion at all. For him, the priestly sacrifice of Jesus, however temporal it may be, is by no means an event of this world. It took place outside the world and Christians must leave the world if they want to meet the Crucified One:
(13:12).
«Jesus suffered outside the door of the city to sanctify the people. So let us also go out of the camp to go to him, bringing his abomination, because we have no lasting city down here»
(13:12).
(Paul-Louis Couchoud, Le dieu Jésus, original cursive)
..since the words:
[the crucifixion] took place outside the world and Christians must leave the world if they want to meet the Crucified One
...are perfectly resumed by:
32 And I, when I am lifted up from the earth [= crucified in Heaven], will draw all people to myself [=in heaven].”
Statistics: Posted by Giuseppe — Wed Feb 21, 2024 10:06 am