{"id":109606,"date":"2025-03-29T03:19:54","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T09:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=109606"},"modified":"2025-03-29T03:19:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T09:19:54","slug":"a-twentieth-century-corruption-of-1-corinthians-1312","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2025\/03\/a-twentieth-century-corruption-of-1-corinthians-1312.html","title":{"rendered":"A Twentieth-Century Corruption of 1 Corinthians 13:12?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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\"Apollo's<\/a>
The ruined temple of Apollo at Corinth \u00a0(Wikimedia Commons public domain image)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I was out and about all day today, Friday, sadly bereft of my computer. \u00a0So I\u2019m very late in calling attention to today\u2019s new article in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship<\/em> to your notice. \u00a0It is \u201cThrough a Glass Darkly: Was There a Twentieth-Century Corruption of 1 Corinthians 13:12?\u201d<\/a> which was written by Charles Dike<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Abstract:<\/strong> This paper considers the well-known account of Paul having been struck blind on the road to Damascus and his equally well-known statement that \u201cfor now we see through a glass darkly.\u201d Both are examined in light of a solar eclipse that occurred across the Mediterranean in AD 49. It is possible that Paul could have been referring to an experience of viewing the solar eclipse through a filter. The article provides an exploration of potential astronomical aids that may have been available to first-century viewers of the eclipse. Views of solar phenomenon are shown and then Jewish and Christian thoughts are discussed regarding glass, crystals, clouds, and the veil. At the end of the nineteenth century, a conflict arose among commentators about whether 1 Corinthians 13:12 was referring to looking at a reflection in a cloudy mirror or viewing an eclipse through darkened glass. Ultimately those advocating for an interpretation of his words as referring to a reflection in a blurry mirror prevailed. However, based on new information and on the religious context, the darkened-glass interpretation appears to be the correct one. The paper concludes with the presentation of a Jewish perspective of the darkened glass, which, typologically, equates to a veil.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"An<\/a>
An empty tomb in Jerusalem dating to the Herodian period. The photograph was taken by my friend and colleague Dr. Jeffrey Chadwick, and I use it here with his kind permission. Neither of us believes either the Garden Tomb or the Holy Sepulcher to be the right place, so this will have to represent the as-yet unknown site of Christ\u2019s burial and resurrection.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A few days ago, I threatened readers here that, with the approach of Easter, I would be sharing at least four poems with you that, to me, powerfully capture part of the otherwise inescapable problem \u2014 death \u2014 that the Easter story, the account of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, solves. \u00a0I began by giving you Theodore Roethke\u2019s \u201cElegy for Jane,\u201d<\/a> which moved me deeply when I first encountered it in, of all places, a college preparatory exam. \u00a0Now I give you the first of two poems in my proposed quartet from A. E. Housman, whose work I hold in great affection:<\/p>\n

\u201cTo an Athlete Dying Young\u201d<\/p>\n

\n

The time you won your town the race\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>
\nWe chaired you through the market-place;\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>
\nMan and boy stood cheering by,\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>
\nAnd home we brought you shoulder-high.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

To-day, the road all runners come,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>
\nShoulder-high we bring you home,\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>
\nAnd set you at your threshold down,\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>
\nTownsman of a stiller town.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Smart lad, to slip betimes away\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>
\nFrom fields where glory does not stay,\u00a0 <\/span>
\nAnd early though the laurel grows\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>
\nIt withers quicker than the rose.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Eyes the shady night has shut\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>
\nCannot see the record cut,\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>
\nAnd silence sounds no worse than cheers\u00a0 <\/span>
\nAfter earth has stopped the ears:\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Now you will not swell the rout\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>
\nOf lads that wore their honours out,\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>
\nRunners whom renown outran\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>
\nAnd the name died before the man.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

So set, before its echoes fade,\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>
\nThe fleet foot on the sill of shade,\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>
\nAnd hold to the low lintel up\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>
\nThe still-defended challenge-cup.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

And round that early-laurelled head <\/span>
\nWill flock to gaze the strengthless dead,\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>
\nAnd find unwithered on its curls\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>
\nThe garland briefer than a girl\u2019s.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\"Kilauea<\/a>
Several years ago, Kilauea put out this gusher, about twice the height of the Empire State Building. (Wikimedia Commons public domain image)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We drove from the Kohala Coast over to Hilo, on the opposite coast \u2014 that is, the east coast \u2014 and then up to Hawai\u2018i Volcanoes National Park<\/a>. Alas, though, the eruption within Halema\u2019uma\u2019u crater at the summit of K\u012blauea volcano ended on Wednesday, just two days ago. \u00a0So, although scores of steam vents were visible across the caldera and on its rim, no molten lava or night time glow was visible today or this evening. \u00a0We\u2019ve seen such eruptions before, but I was hoping that our son could see one. \u00a0Oh well.<\/p>\n

\"Hawaii's<\/a>
The lava lake in Kilauea\u2019s caldera can rise or fall in a matter of hours. (Wikimedia Commons public domain image) And its lava often flows into the Pacific Ocean, making the Big Island a little bit bigger with each lava flow. \u00a0Today, though, we saw only steam vents. \u00a0And we felt a few of them. \u00a0Nice and warm.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

From the rim of Kilauea, we drove down Chain of Craters Road to the ocean and walked a considerable distance past the road barrier through the lava fields by the sea cliffs there. \u00a0This was a nostalgic time for us: The last vacation that we were able to take with my father-in-law was to this island. \u00a0We walked along the same abandoned road, then as today surrounded by lava. \u00a0A week or two later, while he was simply walking around the block near his home in Bountiful, his hip suddenly broke and he fell.<\/p>\n

\"Lava<\/a>
A detailed close-up of some of the thousands of acres along the Chain of Craters Road (Wikimedia Commons public domain image)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I was so very grateful that it hadn\u2019t happened while were down on Chain of Craters Road, perhaps forty-five minutes or an hour away from our parked car (under optimal conditions, to say nothing of trying to transport a seriously injured elderly man), certainly without cell phone reception, an hour\u2019s drive once we reached our car<\/em> from the Park headquarters and two hours from a hospital in Hilo. \u00a0But the real miracle, if you will, was that, when he did<\/em> fall, he was crossing the street adjacent to the Bountiful Utah Temple. \u00a0A car was waiting for him to cross the road, with a man and the man\u2019s daughter watching patiently. \u00a0They saw him fall. \u00a0They sprang immediately into action. \u00a0The man was an orthopedic surgeon. \u00a0(If I recall correctly, he was involved in some way with the Utah Jazz.) \u00a0He told us afterward that he almost never drove that particular street during his daily routine, but that he had somehow felt, that day, that he should<\/em>. \u00a0I later told my father-in-law that, while it obviously wasn\u2019t good that his hip broke, if he had to have his hip break it couldn\u2019t possibly have happened under better circumstances. \u00a0He had expert specialist medical attention within mere seconds of his injury. \u00a0That story was very much on my mind today.<\/p>\n

Posted from Hilo, the Island of Hawai\u02bbi, Hawai\u02bbi<\/p>\n

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