Besnijdenis & de gevolgen door de eeuwen heen ...

~*~
THE VERY MINISTRY
chiseled in stone
signifies and is replaced in history by the ministry of the Spirit,
which has been revealed in the New Covenant,
which is not, of course, for Paul a text, a GRAMMA,
but it is an interpretation
of a text.
~*~
HE THUS IMPLIES
avant la lettre, as it were,
predicts or enacts the coming into being of the New Testament,
and the relation of these two is figured as that of 'letter which kills' to
the "Spirit which gives life."
~*~
THUS,
the move
of the modern readers of Paul, such as RH, who deny
the allegorical and supersessionist movement of Paul's text
is ultimately not convincing.
The supersessionism cannot be denied,
because there already and still was an enfleshed community living out
the "OLD" Covenant: "IT" certainly had not remained an affair
of mere words on stone.
~*~
AS THE RESULT
of a gigantic take-over bid,
we find all the functions of the Law
attributed to Yeshua Mashiach.
SINCE the glory of the spirit
hidden within the text is what Moshe's veil
conceals, and that hidden glory is the life of the Christian community,
the Pauline structure is profoundly allegorical
after all.
HE cannot mean,
of course, that the text of the Torah has been abolished,
SO, therefore, he must mean that the literal meaning
is what will be
abolished.
~*~
IT IS CLEAR
that Paul - however inconsistent he may sometimes be -
could hardly have referred to scripture itself as 'abolished,'
when scripture provides him with his primary witness
to Mashiach
Yeshu.
~*~
THE 'letter'
is not only the written word but certainly, as Paul says almost explicitly,
the literal reading of "MOSHE" by the Jews.
Even Augustine read Paul well:
"IN the Old testament there is a concealment of the New,
in the New Testament there is a revelation of the Old!"
A hermeneutic theory such as Paul's,
by which the literal Israel, literal history, literal circumcision, and literal
genealogy are superceded by their allegorical, spiritual signifieds
is NOT necessarily anti-Semitic
or even anti-Judaic.
~*~
FROM THE
PERSPECTIVE of the first century,
the contest between a Pauline allegorical Israel
and a rabbinic hermeneutics of the concrete Israel
is simply a legitimate cultural, hermeneutical, and political contestation.
The denotation of "ISRAEL" was to a certain extent
up for grabs.
~*~
TO BE SURE,
Paul does not mean by spirit the spriritual meaning
in the sense of a detailed allegorical consultation of the written text
{as perhaps Origen would mean}, but he does mean literal Israel
as the signifier of the new Israel 'according to the spirit,'
and lieral circumcision as signifier of the inner disposition
to which he referred in 2 COR 2:29,
and the letter of the Law as signifier of the Law of faith working through love, the Law of Mashiach Yehoshua, which is here called
service in the new being
of the spirit.
~*~
THESE
psychological & ethical dimensions
are thus a consequence of the hermeneutic.
In pursuing a fairly detailed reading of passages in Galatians,
we might be able to trace these themes in their most
concentrated form in Paul's
'livejournal' writings.
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