Tag: 2 Chronicles 28:8-15
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31st Sunday in Ordinary Time
Here’s a sermon for Sunday, October 30 on 2 Chronicles 28:8-15 – a little late: Sunday, October 30, is “Reformation Sunday.” The Protestant churches in the Christian family celebrate this occasion as the anniversary of Martin Luther’s nailing his famous 95 theses to the door of the church in Wittenberg, sparking a debate about what…
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Good Old Days, Ancient Version
According to Steven Schweitzer, in Reading Utopia in Chronicles, the Chronicler uses prophecy and speeches for two purposes. On one hand, prophecy serves to create a utopian past for Israel that functions as a critique of the Chronicler’s present and as a vision for future possibility. On the other, the prophetic source confers authority. “The…
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Exegetical Exercise – 2 Chronicles 28 8-15
This week, taking a closer look at 2 chronicles 28:8-15 – an obscure story, that occurs here and nowhere else in the Bible (although there are echoes of Jesus’ story of the Good Samaritan in this story …) There is almost no commentary on this passage. Rashi says nothing, really; study Bibles leave it all…
Matters of Interpretation 