Prior, Matthew : (1664-1721) English epigrammatist.
... differ on the point): this has been observed for centuries as the date of the birth of Jesus. The historical situation of it has been highlighted from two statements in the New Testament. The Gospel of Matthew (2:1) tells us that "Jesus was born in Judaea, in the days of Herod the king..." The Gospel of Luke (2:1-5) has the information that Jesus' mother Mary, when she was "great with child" (believed to... and who therefore was responsible for the appointment not only of "Cyrenius"; the Bible's name for the Roman "Quirinius", but also of Herod I to their respective posts. In two points the data of Matthew and Luke are faulty by the present calendar. Herod I has been found to have died in 4 B.C. So Jesus could not have been born after that year. The census under Quirinius, by the same calendar, took... made a number of mistakes and miscalculations. 7 B.C. is particularly appropriate if we are to credit the legend of the unusual star which the Magi, the Wise Men of the East, are said by Matthew (2:1-2) to have followed as a guide towards the one "who is born king of the Jews". The visit of the Magi may not be history, but, as Kepler calculated in 1603, there was indeed an abnormal phenomenon ...
... ontological verity out of time in God's eternity. That, however, is hardly something that will carry the field with a non-Christian as a decisive argument. A better point is that only the narratives of Matthew and Luke speak of the immaculate conception. It is Pauline and Johannine Christology that creates the idea of Divine Sonship quite independent of the gospels. The infancy accounts, unlike the rest... quite clearly unsympathetic and lacks mutual understanding. Sethna examines considerable theological evidence between 100 and 200 A.D. to prove that the alternative to the Virgin Birth account of Matthew was not any accusation of adultery on Mary's part, but simply asserting that Jesus was normally born of Joseph and Mary (as in "Acts of Thomas", Page 194 Cerinthus, the Carpocratians... his human experiences and his assuming "sinful flesh" for the sake of mankind (2 Corinthians 5:2, Romans 8:3, Philippians 2:6). Sethna concludes that everything about the virgin birth in Matthew and Luke "has an air of fiction". There is no trace of any family tradition of the virginal conception of Jesus till it appears in two gospels towards the end of the Isl century A.D. Mary does not ...
... the same task of trying to find an historical account of the virginal conception through possible "implicit" references in the New Testament outside the "explicit" ones in the infancy narratives of Matthew and Luke, which, though insufficient and unreliable no less than mutually contradictory, claim to be historical. Here Paul's Galatians 4:4-5, which is my point de depart, is the central topic. I... say that we can gather little of Jesus' moral doctrine from Paul. A few references are there to it, but nothing even remotely about the Sermon on the Mount. I should say that this gap speaks against Matthew rather than against Paul. And so does the absence of biographical ma- Page 36 terial - except for a small number of stray allusions - in Paul. Somerville himself has averred:... conceptions the scriptures that proclaim it must be wrong." In my opinion, one's belief or not in miraculous conceptions is irrelevant in our sphere of discourse. The pertinent points here for proclaiming Matthew and Luke wrong are: "How does Paul, the earliest witness we have, come to be utterly unaware of the doctrine of virginal conception - why did it surface relatively late and only in two New-Testament ...
... accord primacy in time among the four Gospels to the one called Matthew's and which as late as 1966 the prestigious Catholic production, The Jerusalem Bible, was still loth to abandon. 4 The view is that the Greek Matthew, our present text, is based on the Greek translation of a primitive version of it in Aramaic composed by Matthew the publican, one of the Apostles mentioned in our present... royal Davidic line. Because Matthew regarded Jesus as the completion of the royal Davidic line, and because he read the passage in a Greek translation of Isaiah which spoke of a 'virgin' (as distinct from the Hebrew which has only 'young woman'), Matthew saw the applicability of this text to the birth of Jesus from the Virgin Mary at Bethlehem. It was a proof for Matthew who had an insight as to how... explanation, Matthew adopts rather devious tactics. Brown 278 points them out: "It is noteworthy that Matthew who seemingly is dependent on Mark as regards Page 224 the account of the empty tomb, changes drastically the stated purpose for the women's visit: they were going 'to see the sepulchre,' not to anoint the body [as in Mark]. However, it is dubious that Matthew has corrected ...
... ncy and a rather mixed-up mind on whether or not the illegitimacy-accusation by the Jews was prior to Matthew's Gospel and stirred Matthew to offer a Christian explanation as against the Jewish calumny, Brown might argue, as in footnote 28 (continued on p. 143): "If the situation described by Matthew is not a factual one but is the product of Christian romantic imagination, one must deem it a... origin of Matthew's tradition of the Virgin Birth. Matthew is chockful of "formula citations" indicating that in his eyes the NT events took place in order to fulfil the OT passages which he cites. And among the citations Isaiah easily takes the lead. Brown 98 has counted ten to fourteen "formula citations" in Matthew, with "eight of them citations from Isaiah". So much is Matthew Isaiah-minded... Jesus. If all can be born in the very way Jesus is made to be born by Matthew and Luke, does not that way become a sheer symbol of a spiritual birth which has nothing to do with physical conditions such as Matthew and Luke suggest? I have also pointed out that the tale unfolded by Mark in particular though also in general by Matthew, Luke and John about the relationship between Jesus and his mother conflicts ...
... attention on the unsounder aspects which we do not care to learn, or if we have learned, are in the habit of carefully forgetting. We may perhaps realize the nature of that unsounder aspect, if we amplify Matthew Arnold's phrase:—an aristocracy no longer possessed of the imposing nobility of mind, the proud sense of honour, the striking pre-eminence of faculty, which are the saving graces—nay, which are the... ineffectual, which are entirely un-English and allied rather to the clarity and impatience of the Gaul. Moreover their whole character was moulded in a grand style, such as has not been witnessed by any prior or succeeding age—so much so that the striking description by which the Greek ambassador expressed the temper of the Roman Senate, might with equal justice be transferred to the entire people. They ...
... worship of a physical object, e.g. a statue, taken as a god. Page 123 Jewish observances at both the home and the synagogue. — Pontius Pilate Although it is only found in Matthew, the scene of Pontius Pilate washing his hands of the guilt of the wrongful condemning of Jesus, whom he feels innocent, is a famous part of the Passion story. Some historians believe that in order... Words on the Cross Not all seven sayings can be found in any one account of Jesus' crucifixion. The sayings are a harmonizing of texts from each of the four canonical gospels. In the gospels of Matthew and Mark, Jesus shouts the fourth phrase only, and cries out wordlessly before dying. In Luke's Gospel, the first, second and seventh sayings occur. The third, fifth and sixth sayings can only be found... 23:34). 2. Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise (Luke 23:43). 3. Woman, behold your son: behold your mother (John 19:26 f.). 4. Eli Eli lema sabachthani? (Matthew 27:46 and Mark 15:34). 5. I thirst (John 19:28). 6. It is finished John ( 19:30). 7. Father, into your hands I commit my spirit (Luke 23:46). — The Temple and Ark of the ...
... continue not only to see the triple glory in the superconscient but also its manifestive play in this material creation. Rare is such a sight even for the Yogins to possess We have in St. Matthew the following: "The light of the body is the eye; if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light." (6:22) If it is in connection with the treasures of heaven which can be spotted... Aurobindo's Savitri Jugal Kishore Mukherjee says that he has been a lover and adorer of Savitri for the last five decades. His association with it is perhaps even longer than that going back to the time prior to the publication of its first volume in 1950, when it was coming out in several cantos in the Ashram periodicals. But to love and adore Savitri is to live in its bright, marvellous and unfailing ...
... × Matthew Cobb: The Egg & Sperm Race , pp. 42-3. × Gerard Amzallag: op. cit., p. 51. × Matthew Cobb: op. cit., p. 95. ... enterprise.” 41 “A key ambition of the scientific revolution was to provide numerical, objective descriptions of all aspects of the universe, including living and anatomical phenomena,” writes Matthew Cobb. He quotes the Italian anatomist Francesco Redi: “I wished to demonstrate in these dissertations that unless myology [the study of the muscles] becomes part of mathematics, the parts of the muscles... theoretical physics to continue its search for a Grand Unified Theory. However, Richard Lewontin warns against “extreme holism” or “obscurantist holism.” Even if it is true that “the whole is always prior to its parts” and everything is interconnected, “that should not be confused with the methodological claim that no success at all in understanding the world or manipulating it is possible if we cut ...
... half-way to a seer. Here too he is not conscious of his form and does not employ it as a conscious medium. But he is not so apparently loose like Wordsworth or facile like Tennyson. One example from Matthew Arnold: But the majestic river floated on Out of the mist and hum of that low land, Into the frosty starlight, and there moved Rejoicing through the hushed Chorasmian waste, ... d and lacking in self-restraint. Shelley and Keats are too romantic and purely lyrical; they never had the ambition to write an epic. Their approach and method were not suited for this purpose. Matthew Arnold has written admirable long poems but they are mere episodes and not concerned with any that changed fate or created history. Thus we come back to the two poets we started with. We... grandeur are aimed at, we can dispense with it, provided we substitute this loss by other technical devices like enjambement, verse-paragraph, stress-modulation and inflexion. Chaucer and Spenser, prior to Milton, had retained rhyme, obviously because they had not outgrown the French influence. Also the language had not grown virile enough for the load of blank verse. It is not that Milton was incapable ...
... to Christ's question - is: "you are the Christ, the Son of the living God." Teilhard has surely transposed his own mind and heart to a theological context quite other than that of the Gospel of St. Matthew where the original conversation (16:1516) occurs. So we may enunciate his full position thus: "The universe is to be taken as evolutionary and as converging or coming together upon itself to evolve... form of Godhead that can issue momentously and ultimately, for the modern science-expanded consciousness, from the historic Jesus who emerges as a Divine Incarnation from ancient documents like St. Matthew's Gospel." We have already dealt with the numerous facets of this theme. But one particular persistent nuance which Teilhard gives to it remains to be clarified. We mentioned that nuance... dramatis persona ontological-ly involved and therefore "an element of reality, of a concrete involvement in the cosmos". It is as if there were already the flower of a Christic cosmicity at work prior to the life of Jesus and as if this pre-existent flower gave rise to a special seed of itself in that life and then became more intensely flowery. Thus, while the historic Christ is retained and even ...
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