At 03:08 PM 10/10/99 -0400, you wrote:
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>> -----Original Message-----
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>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Richard
>> Landes
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 1999 10:55 PM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: RE: history and apocalyptic prophecy - was Book of Revelation
>> topics
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>> including one of the most astounding exegetical pirouettes in
>> recorded history,
>> where the millennium is shifted from an awaited period of
>> perfection on earth
>> into an already-in-progress, but invisible on earth, kingdom in heaven.
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>> rlandes
>> >Mike
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>I'm not at all sure what you mean by "one of the most astounding exegetical
>pirouettes in
>recorded history,"
he took the almost universal xn expectation that the millennium meant a 1000
year period to come of peace and perfection on earth and argued that it had
started with Jesus. to the objection, but there's still war, suffering and
injustice, he answered, yes. the mn is in the heavenly city (ticonian reading)
and invisible on earth. indeed the binding of satan in binding him in the pit,
ie the heart of man where he rages all the more furiously, thus the mn on earth
means even greater strife and fury than before. peace is war, war is peace.
exegetical pirouette to me.
>but as I pointed out in two posts explicating the City of
>God, any other conclusion but the above would indeed have constituted an
>"astounding exegetical pirouette."
don't get this. unpack?
>Mike
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