DID. 10.5 Remember Lord your Church, to preserve it from all evil and to make it perfect in your love. And,sanctified, gather it from the four winds into your kingdom which you have prepared for it. Because yours is the power and the glory for ever.
(1Ch 9:24) The gatekeepers were to the four winds: east, [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Chapter 10’
June 29, 2008
Concordance of ‘Four Winds’ (DID. 10.5)
June 28, 2008
The ‘Holy Vine (Branch) of David’ in Old Testament (DID. 9.2); and ‘Holy Name’ (DID. 10.2)
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As the examples below show, vine and Branch allusions in the Old Testament sometimes refer to the Messianic Monarchy and its restoration. The DIDACHE harkens to King David and to Melchizedek, king of (Jerus?) Salem as the ‘branch’ or vine, and Jesus is the restoration.
The DIDACHE and its [...]
May 31, 2008
The DIDACHE-Gospel and True Perfectionism (DID. 1.4, 6.2, 10.5, 16.2)
Both the DIDACHE and New Testament underscore the goal and purpose of the Gospel and its brand of salvation: it is that a person attain perfection.
In the DIDACHE, perfection can be refined as moral, spiritual and economic.
The stakes are absolutely enormous; nothing could be more so: those who attain perfection will enter eternal heavenly life; [...]
