{"id":72643,"date":"2019-04-07T23:07:07","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T05:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=72643"},"modified":"2019-04-07T23:07:07","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T05:07:07","slug":"new-testament-notes-182-185","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2019\/04\/new-testament-notes-182-185.html","title":{"rendered":"New Testament Notes 182-185"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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\"Mt.<\/a>
An irrelevant but beautiful photograph of Mount Shasta, in California, from I-5<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Luke 10:25-28<\/a><\/p>\n

Compare Matthew 22:34-40; Mark 12:28-34<\/p>\n

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\u03c4\u03bf\u1fe6\u03c4\u03bf \u03c0\u03bf\u03af\u03b5\u03b9 \u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u03b6\u03ae\u03c3\u1fc3.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cDo this, and you will live.\u201d<\/p>\n

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With that kind of promise coming at its conclusion, this brief passage ought to be given a great deal of thoughtful attention by all disciples of Christ. \u00a0Maybe daily.<\/p>\n

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Aim\u00e9 Nicolas Morot,\u00a0\u201cLe bon Samaritain\u201d (1880) \u00a0[Wikimedia Commons public domain image]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Luke 10:29-37<\/a><\/p>\n

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This is one of the most beloved and memorable of all of Christ\u2019s parables.<\/p>\n

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My friend and former FARMS and Maxwell Institute colleague Jack Welch offers a very interesting perspective on it here:<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Good Samaritan: A Type and Shadow of the Plan of Salvation\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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I discussed a fascinatingly\u00a0different translation of this story in a column that I published several years ago in the Deseret News<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/865617412\/A-very-contemporary-translation-of-the-New-Testament.html?pg=all<\/a><\/p>\n

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You can easily guess what the \u201cunprintable racist epithet\u201d is.<\/p>\n

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\"Kinisat<\/a>
The Church of Lazarus in El-Eizariyya (Bethany); Wikimedia Commons public domain image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Luke 10:38-42<\/a><\/p>\n

Compare John 11:1; 12:1-3<\/p>\n

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Mary and Martha, and their brother Lazarus, were friends of Jesus. \u00a0He apparently often stayed with them when he came to Jerusalem.<\/p>\n

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They lived in Bethany (Aramaic\u00a0\u05d1\u05d9\u05ea \u05e2\u05e0\u05d9\u05d0,\u00a0<\/span>Beth Anya<\/i>; Greek\u00a0<\/span>\u0392\u03b7\u03b8\u03b1\u03bd\u03af\u03b1<\/span>)<\/span>, the traditional site of which is still known today, in Arabic, as al-Eizariyya<\/em>\u00a0(\u0627\u0644\u0639\u064a\u0632\u0631\u064a\u0629), a name that\u00a0derives from Lazarus<\/em>. \u00a0It\u2019s a West Bank town located just over the Mount of Olives, on its southeast slope, from Jerusalem. \u00a0The Garden of Gethsemane was located at the Jerusalem-end of a path that connected Bethany with Jerusalem over a saddle on the Mount of Olives. \u00a0Jesus would have passed it often, as we walked between their place and the city.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I presume that he stayed with them for economic or financial reasons, especially at festival times when the inns were full and the prices high, just as people coming to Salt Lake City for General Conference will often stay with friends or relatives in the area.<\/p>\n

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\"Brueghel's<\/a>
\u201cThe Sermon on the Mount\u201d\u00a0(Jan Brueghel the Elder, 1597; Wikimedia Commons public domain image)
You should not conclude from this slightly misleading painting that the Sermon on the Mount was delivered in Flanders. That would be a mistake.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Luke 11:1-4<\/a><\/p>\n

Compare Matthew 6:9-13<\/p>\n

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Probably the best Latter-day Saint discussion of \u201cThe Lord\u2019s Prayer\u201d is to be found in John W. Welch\u2019s 1998\u00a0Illuminating the Sermon at the Temple and Sermon on the Mount: An Approach to 3 Nephi 11-18 and Matthew 5-7<\/em><\/a>, reissued in 2010 as The Sermon at the Temple and the Sermon on the Mount: A Latter-day Saint Approach<\/em><\/a>, which is a substantial revision of his 1990 The Sermon at the Temple and the Sermon on the Mount.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Of course, the book was published by FARMS (now the Maxwell Institute), back in the dark era\u00a0before real scholarship came to that organization, when vicious ad hominems<\/em> and pseudo-scholarship were the order of the day.<\/p>\n

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In 2009, incidentally, Professor Welch \u2014 my incredibly prolific and polymathic friend \u2014 published The Sermon on the Mount in the Light of the Temple<\/em> <\/a>with Ashgate, in the United Kingdom. \u00a0This was a revision of his work for a general non-LDS audience.<\/p>\n

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