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Mark displays a knowledge of the tool called 'Drash' דרש which means 'seek'. When seeking, you have a clue of what you are looking for. In practice one compares and contrasts something known, with various things found. Mark knows what John the baptist was doing, and as Mark or Peter searched the scriptures, found a prophecies that looked like they could be compared. | Mark displays a knowledge of the tool called 'Drash' דרש which means 'seek'. When seeking, you have a clue of what you are looking for. In practice one compares and contrasts something known, with various things found. Mark knows what John the baptist was doing, and as Mark or Peter searched the scriptures, found a prophecies that looked like they could be compared. | ||
| − | Keying on the word 'wilderness' and the idea | + | Keying on the word 'wilderness' and the idea of someone preaching there, he found the passage in Isaiah and relates it this way: |
:[[Mr 1:2]] As it is written in the prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee. | :[[Mr 1:2]] As it is written in the prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee. | ||
:[[Mr 1:3]] The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. | :[[Mr 1:3]] The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. | ||
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:[[Isa 42:16]] And I will bring the blind by a way [that] they knew not; I will lead them in paths [that] they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them. | :[[Isa 42:16]] And I will bring the blind by a way [that] they knew not; I will lead them in paths [that] they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them. | ||
| − | Mark does not stop with the obvious comparisons, but uses those as the anchor to Old Testament scripture. From that anchor he will continue to interpret scripture. | + | Mark does not stop with the obvious comparisons, but uses those as the anchor to Old Testament scripture. From that anchor he will continue to interpret scripture using drash. Next he compares a description of Elijah, to explicit and implied images of Elijah. |
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| + | :[[Mr 1:6]] And John was clothed with camel’s hair <ref>The authority (hair) of a judge (camel)</ref>, and with a girdle of a skin <ref>Kings girdle אזור of righteousness (skin עור is a pun to lightאור )</ref> about his loins <ref>as a gift מתן (Elijah was righteous as a gift)</ref> <ref>[[2Ki 1:8]] And they answered him, [He was] an hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It [is] Elijah the Tishbite</ref>; and he did eat locusts and wild honey; | ||
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Revision as of 15:05, 1 November 2016
Seek Drash דרש
Mark displays a knowledge of the tool called 'Drash' דרש which means 'seek'. When seeking, you have a clue of what you are looking for. In practice one compares and contrasts something known, with various things found. Mark knows what John the baptist was doing, and as Mark or Peter searched the scriptures, found a prophecies that looked like they could be compared.
Keying on the word 'wilderness' and the idea of someone preaching there, he found the passage in Isaiah and relates it this way:
- Mr 1:2 As it is written in the prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.
- Mr 1:3 The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
He compares it with this:
- Mr 1:4 John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.
- Mr 1:5 And there went out unto him all the land of Judaea, and they of Jerusalem, and were all baptized of him in the river of Jordan, confessing their sins.
Mark is summarizing what more than one prophet said: "As it is written in the prophets." Here are two prophets that say things similar to this:
- Isa 40:3 ¶ The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
- Mal 3:1 ¶ Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.
And here is a related one that Mark probably didn't understand but Matthew did [1]:
- Isa 42:16 And I will bring the blind by a way [that] they knew not; I will lead them in paths [that] they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.
Mark does not stop with the obvious comparisons, but uses those as the anchor to Old Testament scripture. From that anchor he will continue to interpret scripture using drash. Next he compares a description of Elijah, to explicit and implied images of Elijah.
- Mr 1:6 And John was clothed with camel’s hair [2], and with a girdle of a skin [3] about his loins [4] [5]; and he did eat locusts and wild honey;
References
- ↑ Mark was comparing John to the prophecies above interpreting the revelatory voice of the king. Matthew saw John and Jesus together fulfilling the prophecy concerning Elijah, reading in the revelatory voice of the prophet. Mt 11:14 And if ye will receive [it], this (John and Jesus together) is Elias, which was for to come.
- ↑ The authority (hair) of a judge (camel)
- ↑ Kings girdle אזור of righteousness (skin עור is a pun to lightאור )
- ↑ as a gift מתן (Elijah was righteous as a gift)
- ↑ 2Ki 1:8 And they answered him, [He was] an hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It [is] Elijah the Tishbite
