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Questions asked about:
- Luther's translation of Eve's Words in Gen. 4:1 and
- King David's Words in the last sentence of 2 Sam. 7:19.
Genesis 4:1 King James Version (KJV)
4 And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord.
וְהָ֣אָדָ֔ם יָדַ֖ע אֶת־חַוָּ֣ה אִשְׁתּ֑וֹ וַתַּ֨הַר֙ וַתֵּ֣לֶד
אֶת־קַ֔יִן וַתֹּ֕אמֶר קָנִ֥יתִי אִ֖ישׁ אֶת־יְהֹוָֽה:
First of all, Luther saw that the purpose of the entire Bible is to teach faith in Jesus. As he wrote, the entire Bible is a very long sermon about the Man Jesus.
Once the LCMS and its tag-a-longs were infected with the rationalism of UOJ, they were vulnerable to the rationalism of text criticism, which if judged properly, is little more than fairy tales from outer space. That led to the Historical Critical Method being adopted, then Karl Barth and his Commie girlfriend Charlotte Kirschbaum replacing Luther with their neo-Marxist-Calvinism:
- Church Growth as the new Fascism.
- Luther treated with repugnance.
- CPH's UOJ, Confessing The Gospel, and Gigantic "Small" Catechism.
Exegesis does not exist in a vacuum. So, given Luther's Scriptures-as-a-United-Truth perspective, what does the Hebrew of Genesis 4:1 say?
All of us who have had Hebrew know that אֶת is used for direct objects. Luther was not prone to say, "Oh no, that cannot be." He saw the Word as it was and also related it, as only a genius could, to the rest of Scriptures.
The First Gospel is Genesis 3:15, God promising the Savior after He drove Adam and Eve from Paradise. Would that not plant faith in Eve's heart that the Savior would break the chains of their sin?
The mark highlighted means The Lord is in apposition. "I have conceived a man - The Lord.
That is no different from I have a bought a house - a condo.
Or - I have married a girl - a German.
The sceptics always want to remove the divine from Scriptures. CPH had no trouble publishing an NIV Bible commentary that denied the Messianic predictions of the Psalms. That is like going to a restaurant with no food, yet they charge money anyway. CPH got away with that and moved on to its $90 follow-up on Braaten-Jenson and Barth-Kirschbaum. Yet the McCain-Harrison tyranny wants to continue in power and in taxing the long-suffering congregations.
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| As Luther said about Erasmus's work, this is manure served on a beautiful silver tray. |
2 Samuel 7:19-21 King James Version (KJV)
19 And this was yet a small thing in thy sight, O Lord God; but thou hast spoken also of thy servant's house for a great while to come. And is this the manner of man, O Lord God?
At first glance, this passage does not seem overtly Messianic, maybe not covertly Messianic either. But the Bible is not a Bartlett's Familiar Quotations for sects, though the LCMS-ELS-ELCA-WELS sects treat it so. "Oh, here is a verse that proves the entire world is forgiven and saved. If you deny it, you unrepentant sinner, we will kick your sorry soul out." (Quotation sanitized for a G rating.)
The Patriarchs (not Walther and Pieper, but the Genesis ones) were promised an ever-growing kingdom that was also everlasting. A brief glance at history shows that no such human kingdom has ever existed. Israel itself was nothing more than a dried out stump when Jesus was born. So this Kingdom had to be the one where the Messiah reigned.
So there is an unbroken connection between Genesis 3:15, the hopes of Genesis 4:1, the Justification by Faith of Abraham in Genesis 15, the Messianic Psalms and the prophesies. Is not Isaiah 7 and 9 a reflection on Genesis 3:15, 4:1, and 15:6? We can start with the bright passages we know so well and use them to illuminate ones where we have questions.
The more we do this, the more we will see how God has given us this seamless doctrine of Christ in many different ways, so these revealed truths are known, believed, and unshakeable.
