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Paul’s desire is that Christ be magnified through his physical existence, whether in life or death. This reflects a profound understanding of the believer’s body as a temple of the Holy Spirit ( 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ), meant to honor God in all circumstances.
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St. Paul, in his humility, prefers the pasture, "Christ...
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20 NIV - Philippians 1:20 I eagerly expect and hope that I...
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20 NLT - Philippians 1:20 I eagerly expect and hope that I...
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20 ESV - Philippians 1:20 I eagerly expect and hope that I...
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20 NASB - Philippians 1:20 I eagerly expect and hope that I...
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Paul's Trials Advance the Gospel … 19 For I know that this...
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Jan 26, 2009 · St. Paul teaches first that Christ "is the head of the body, the Church" (Colossians 1:18). Christ is preeminent in everything. We learned from a previous column (August 2008) what St. Paul ...
- Brian Pizzalato
- Introduction
- The Image of God in Second Temple Thought
- The Pauline Concept of The Image of God
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
For more than two millennia theologians have interpreted and reinterpreted the mysterious passages from Genesis in which the first humans are said to be created in the “image of God.” The author of Genesis employs this phrase, or its equivalent, five times over the course of nine chapters.1Oddly, subsequent writers during the Old Testament period n...
The Second Temple period inaugurated an era of rich theological reflection. During this time the phrases “image of God” and “likeness of God” were interpreted in a wide variety of ways.3Some authors associated the image with man’s physical body, and the likeness was its corresponding similarity to God’s visible form. Other writers interpreted the i...
It is our thesis that Paul, by drawing upon the diverse Adam and Wisdom speculations of the Second Temple period, viewed the imago Deias the ideal state in which God created the first man, and which God intended all humanity to possess. For Paul, this original ideal state consisted of the physical human body as well as the mental and spiritual aspe...
To conclude, we can generally define Paul’s concept of the image of God as that which manifests God’s glory. It is the perfect, visible manifestation of God’s character, attributes, power, and majesty. Paul applied this phrase primarily to the risen Christ, who functions as God’s representative agent (displacing the concept of the divine Wisdom), a...
Abbott, T. K. The Epistle to the Ephesians and the Colossians. International Critical Commentary, ed. S. R. Driver, A. Plummer, and C. A. Briggs. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1897. Balchin, John F. “Paul, Wisdom and Christ.” In Christ the Lord: Studies in Christology presented to Donald Guthrie, ed. Harold H. Rowdon. Downers Grove: Intervarsity, 1982....
Oct 18, 1995 · Paul wanted Christ to be magnified in his “body.” The soul and spirit shine through the body (i.e., what the body does). “Foods for the stomach and the stomach for foods, but God will destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for sexual immorality but the Lord, and the Lord for the body” (1 Corinthians 6:13). God is concerned with ...
Feb 20, 2020 · So, Paul has now joined Christ in the ultimate aim of magnifying Christ. This was Christ’s aim in creating Paul. So, it is Paul’s aim in living. It is the height of folly — indeed suicidal — to ignore the ultimate reason you exist and try to make it up as you go along. Paul didn’t do that. He wants his life to be in sync with the ...
Even though Paul must have been mistreated in prison, he could be happy and display to the guards the unlimited greatness of Christ. In particular, Paul displayed Christ’s inexhaustible patience. Christ certainly was magnified in Paul’s physical body. Day by day, Paul was happy in the Lord. His happiness did not diminish as time went by.
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maintained through control and purity. Paul indicates that when the physical body is controlled and kept pure, all aspects of the body, both material and immaterial, can then honour God. Through this communication, Paul argues against the duality of body and soul and advocates a unity between the material and immaterial parts of the body. Purity
