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In order to flesh out the effects of the Lord’s Passion in the Enchiridion theologicum, Niels Hemmingsen quotes an excerpt he attributes to Augustine. Et Augustinus: Per Redemptoris, nostri mortem de tenebris ad lucem, de morte ad vitam, de corruptione ad incorruptionem, de exilio ad patriam, de luctu ad gaudium, de terris ad coeleste regnum vocati sumus. […]
(Part 1; Part 2) The Vulgate is a good translation of the Bible. Stop laughing. No, really, the Vulgate is a good translation of the Bible. It’s not perfect; but, then again, neither is the ESV, the NIV, or the KJV. So it might be worthwhile to look at how an ancient translator who knew […]
It is by this point no secret that I have some disagreements with the way certain terms are rendered in the ESV’s translation of 1 Peter, viz., its threefold reference to “exiles.” I am not certain that any of them should be so rendered: the first is a possible exception, though I have doubts there […]
I’m going to keep beating this dead horse for a while longer–because what good is a dead horse if you don’t beat it? I do so in hopes of a buzzing bugonia, or, in this case, hippogonia, of clarity. Though Russell Moore is quite in favor of the motif, I continue to think that “exile” is […]
This week’s Monday Calvin fix is on a theme recently discussed here a couple of times: pilgrimage. In the course of his exposition in which he seeks to demonstrate that the saints of the Old Testament were always believers in Christ–that is, they always sought eternal happiness from God and not simply the land of […]
My friend and colleague, Dr. Eric Hutchinson, has offered some very insightful comments on the biblical “exile” motif that is often applied to the church in our time. The church in which we both serve devoted the June issue of its New Horizons magazine to just this motif, and I think its feature articles give […]
It has become increasingly popular of late to make use of the motif of “exile” in describing the church. (Pretend there are a bunch of links here.) This can take a couple of forms: (I) The church on earth is, by definition, always an exile community. (II) Due to adverse cultural circumstances, the church becomes an […]
I recently completed a series on the motif of “exile” in 1 Peter (Part 1; Part 2; Part 3) in which I argued that the accent is placed on the alienation of holiness from sin, and not essentially or in the first instance on anything having to do with politics, culture, church-and-statery, etc. I was […]
Last fall, I started a series on the motif of “exile” in 1 Peter, but neglected to finish it. Hence, this post. The motif is used three times in the letter, though the Greek term is not the same in each instance. In the first (1 Peter 1:1), the term used is παρεπιδήμοις; we saw that […]
Last time we looked at the first use of the “exile” or “sojourner” motif in 1 Peter, where it seems to be used specifically of the Jews of the Diaspora, who were sojourning away from their earthly and ancestral homeland. The second occurrence of the motif is quite different, and is much more to the […]