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Old Testament Old Testament (Septuagint) Commentary Grid (Use "Ctrl F" on your keyboard to search) Date Lection Content Summary Historical Context NT / Patristic References Reflections Psalm Psalm Comments The same words, "In the beginning" open Of 1.26 ("Then God said, 'Let us make Father Andrew points out that one of the The Fathers read the first chapters of the Basil the Great writes: "Like the the OT and the Gospel of John. In 1.2, man in our image, after our likeness") reasons these early chapters of Genesis Bible as unfolding a theological foundation in a house, the keel in a ship, "The earth was without form and void, Diadochus sets out the strong view of are so significant for Christian theology is understanding of the human condition and the heart in a body, so is [Psalm 1 as and [covered in] darkness until God the Church Fathers about the history because of St Paul's understanding of [whereas] … much modern scholarship a] brief introduction to the whole created life." In Ancient Christian of humanity: "All men are made in Jesus Christ as the new Adam, since "for as regards [these chapters] as ancient structure of the Psalms. For when David Commentary on Scripture (ACCS), OT I, God's image; but to be in his likeness in Adam, all die, so also in Christ shall all be legends of limited theological value [Louth, intended to propose … to [those who p.xxxix, Father Andrew Louth, points out is granted only to those who through made alive" (1 Cor 15.22, 45, 47,49). Thus, ACCS, OT I, p. lii]. Father Andrew also fought true religion] many painful tasks the great impact of these early chapters great love have brought their own Adam becomes an archetype (that is, a points out that "in the original language[s] involving unmeasured sweats and toils, of Genesis on Christian theology. [See freedom into [submission] to God. For model) for understanding the fall of used by the Fathers the noun translated he showed first the happy end, that in also p.1 on "Creation" in The Orthodox only when we do not belong to humanity. "Adam's disobedience is 'man' (in Greek anthr?pos, in Latin homo) the hope of the blessings reserved for us 01-Sep Genesis 1:1-2:7 Study Bible (OSB) with the subsequent ourselves do we become like him who matched by Christ's obedience, the tree of embraces both male and female" [Louth, Ps 1 we might endure without grief the notes on these verses, as well as Notes A, through love has reconciled us to knowledge of good and evil is matched by ACCS, OT I, p. lii]. Today we can read these sufferings of this life." Gregory of Nyssa G, H and I in the NET Bible-Full Notes himself. No one achieves this unless the tree/wood of the cross." [ACCS, OT I, p. chapters not only for their theological reflects: "The goal of the virtuous life is Edition (NET-FN), p. 1]. he persuades his soul not to be xlvii]. content, but to understand our own blessedness…. What … would reasonably distracted by the false glitter of this human condition better. be called the divine nature…. This is the life." To seek and receive the likeness summation and object of everything of God is a life-long challenge for all of conceived in relation to the good … [and] us. would reasonably be called the divine nature…" Praying a psalm a day helps keep sin away. Three stories set out the early history of The meaning of the Hebrew word John Chrysostom points out: "At that time John of Damascus writes: "The tree of The history of Israel shows … that the mankind: (1) the placing of all the 'ādām' is 'people' or 'humanity.' The [in Genesis] God said, 'Let us make for him knowledge of good and evil is the power of fundamental reality, through all social animals and trees and Adam and Eve in first "human being is made from the a helper' (2.18), but in these times [in the discernment by multi-dimensional vision. changes and historical vicissitudes was the garden of Eden with a command not soil ('ădāmā' in Hebrew, a play on the Gospels] God says no such thing. Will he This is the complete knowing of one's own Israel as a worshiping community. For to eat from "the tree of the knowledge of word 'ādām')…." [Bernhard W. who has received the grace of the Spirit nature…. [This discernment] is good for this reason, the book of Psalms lies at the good and evil" (2.8-25); (2) the fall of Anderson, The Living World of the OT, need any further help?... At that time them that are full-grown and have walked very heart of the OT [Anderson, p.542]. mankind and its consequences (3.1-24); 4th ed, p. 161]. In The First Created [God] made man to the image of God, but in the contemplation of God-for them that Of v. 6 ("I was established as king by and the lives of Abel and Cain (4.1-16). Man, St Symeon the New Theologian now he has united [mankind] to God have no fear of changing, because in the him") Gregory of Nyssa writes that in the Cyprian reflects: "Abel teaches … us, urges: "Let no one invent excuses for himself. At that time … man was formed course of time they have acquired a light of the prophecy of Isaish 9.6: "David when presenting our gift at the altar, to [their] sins and say that we, by virtue on the sixth day, because the eon [that is, certain habit of such contemplation…. describes the establishment of His come, as he did, in the fear of God, in of the transgression of Adam, are an immeasurable period of time] had to be Some have imagined paradise to have kingdom, not as though He were not a simplicity of heart, in the holiness of the entirely subject to the action of the completed. Now he is formed on the first been material, while others have imagined King, but in the view that the humiliation 02-Sep Genesis 2:8-4:16 law, in peace and harmony." devil and are dragged by force into day and from the beginning and in the it to have been spiritual. However, [I Ps 2 to the estate of a servant to which the sin. Those who think and speak thus light." believe] that … this most sacred domain of Lord submitted … was taken up and consider that the dispensation of the his has the twofold aspect of being absorbed into the majesty of His Incarnation of … Jesus Christ was perceptible both to the senses and the Kingdom [as set out in v. 6]." For v.7 useless and in vain" [p. 115]. mind." ("You are my son"), see NET-FN, note e, p. 900 and the contrasting note in The OSB on p. 682. Of v. 11 Peter Chrysologus preached: "He who remains in the fear of God remains in holiness." This is a challenge to each of us to remain in the fear of God, to rejoice and to remain "in holiness." Three themes are here: (1) The beginning Of 6.5 when "the LORD saw that the Augustine reflects: "Undoubtedly the ark is Biblical hermeneutics-how to understand Jerome writes: "This psalm can pertain to of civilization with Adam and Eve's family wickedness of man was great in the a symbol of the city of God on its texts-[happens at three levels:] (1) David or to Christ, and through him to all (4.17-26), as people began to call "upon earth," Maximos the Confessor writes: pilgrimage in history. It is a figure of the historical, and (2) theological … and (3) the the saints." Theodore of Mopsuestia the name of the Lord" (4.26); (2) The "Evil is not in the nature of creatures, church that was saved by the wood on personal appropriation of biblical truth, reflects: "The strength of a stable spirit family line of Adam to Noah, who are but in their wrong and irrational which there hung the 'Mediator between which may be called 'transformative' or that is greatly tested in adversity must be blessed and named 'man' [the Hebrew movement. Evil is an erroneous God and men, himself man, Jesus Christ' (1 'transformational.' This is the level of considered because, since it possesses word is 'ādām', as noted above] (5.1-32); judgment about things apprehended, Tim 2.5)." Of 4.17 Augustine writes: "It is existential engagement … with the truth hope, even amidst the greatest anguish it and (3) God's grief over the wickedness accompanied by their wrong use." recorded of Cain that he built a city, while claims of what is understood by the does not yield…. I will not stop hoping in of humanity, leading to the judgment of Anderson notes that "the ark, tossing Abel, as though he were merely a pilgrim reading or hearing of the text, and then what I have believed because you, Lord, the flood (6.1-22). The Nephilim, or helplessly on the rising flood waters, is on earth built none. For the true city of the assented to or dissented from, a level help me as I labor. You guard my step "giants" on the earth (6.4) may either be a sign of Yahweh's intention to deliver saints is in heaven, though here on earth it often referred to the 'spiritual reading' or from the danger of evil.
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