
Jesus and the God of the Old Testament
The Joseph Story Ep. 7.
In lieu of a write-up of the class I’ll leave you with a couple of quotations. The first, from St. Maximus the Confessor, which framed our discussion. The second, from Chris Green’s Sanctifying Interpretation, which was the primary source for the entire class.
St. Maximus the Confessor:
“In consequence, it is necessary for him who seeks God piously not to latch on to a phrase, lest, instead of God, he unknowingly receive things about God; that is, because he is dangerously devoted to the words of Scripture instead of to the Word, the Word flees the mind which thought…
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