Tag: serpent
Continued from “On serpent and the cross. Part I.” You must admit, one can hardly keep from eisegesis when one is a Christian holding Numbers 21. “Eisegesis” is reading meaning into the text rather than out of it. The authors of the bronze serpent story didn’t have the Christ in mind, but we discern the …
Continue reading
Permanent link to this article: https://onmounthoreb.com/on-serpent-and-cross-part-2/
It’s been a while since I’ve engaged in pure, unadulterated biblical commentary, but it is time. So much of life’s chaos and din has been converging on me without pause for so many weeks that I must put it all away—for today—and open the Bible and immerse myself completely in the questions that seem to …
Continue reading
Permanent link to this article: https://onmounthoreb.com/on-serpent-and-cross-part-1/
Nov 04 2014
On serpent and the cross. Part II.
November 4, 2014
Continued from “On serpent and the cross. Part I.” You must admit, one can hardly keep from eisegesis when one is a Christian holding Numbers 21. “Eisegesis” is reading meaning into the text rather than out of it. The authors of the bronze serpent story didn’t have the Christ in mind, but we discern the …
Continue reading