Interesting I honestly have not thought about it much and have never heard a sermon specifically teach on it. Do you know what the Church Fathers may have said about it?
Scot McKnight has a post today on EO and Christ's descent into hell (Hades). He referenced this passage. I do not honestly know exactly what this event was, but I do think it was some sort of historical event related to Christ's activity before His resurrection. It's fit into totally real historical passages, and the passage itself is very specific in certain ways, so I just find it a real neck jerk to make it apocalyptic. I put it in the category of 1 Pe. 4, I'm not sure how/what happened, but something did.
The hermeneutical point at the end is I think important. Helping readers read scripture without everything written needing to be modernistic literal is significant. Reading according to the genre.
Interesting I honestly have not thought about it much and have never heard a sermon specifically teach on it. Do you know what the Church Fathers may have said about it?
I don't know about the CH's view, would be intereting to explore.
My brother and I had talked about this passage a while back… I’ve always wondered about it, and I like this explanation.
Yes, it's a difficult text! I scratch my head too.
Scot McKnight has a post today on EO and Christ's descent into hell (Hades). He referenced this passage. I do not honestly know exactly what this event was, but I do think it was some sort of historical event related to Christ's activity before His resurrection. It's fit into totally real historical passages, and the passage itself is very specific in certain ways, so I just find it a real neck jerk to make it apocalyptic. I put it in the category of 1 Pe. 4, I'm not sure how/what happened, but something did.
The hermeneutical point at the end is I think important. Helping readers read scripture without everything written needing to be modernistic literal is significant. Reading according to the genre.
Best explanation I have heard, it makes good sense to me! Thank you!!!
Saints. You refer to them as holy men. No women? Curious. Why do you translate it/interpret it that way?
Well, maybe it does envisage women, I'm unsure who the "saints" even are here.