The Three Wise Men (or Magi) and Their Tragic Role in the Gospel of Matthew
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The Three Wise Men (or Magi) and Their Tragic Role in the Gospel of Matthew
the social, cultural, political, and even cosmic eschatology of Matthew, Paul, Revelation,
N. T. Wright • How God Became King: The Forgotten Story of the Gospels
The word magoi often has the meaning of “magician”, in both Old and New Testaments (see Acts, viii, 9; xiii, 6, 8; also the Septuagint of Dar:., i, 20; ii, 2i 10, 27; iv, 4; v, 7, 11, 15). St. Justin (Tryph., lxxvui), Origen (Cels., I, lx), St. Augustine (Serm. xx, De epiphania) and St. Jerome (In Isa., xix, 1) find the same meaning in the second... See more
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Most Protestants aren’t Zionist because of Christ, or even Martin Luther. They’re Zionist because of Cyrus Scofield and a quiet theological takeover.
Scofield’s 1909 Reference Bible rewrote how millions of evangelicals read scripture.
Through clever footnotes, he inserted a belief system... See more
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