Re: SHMEION TOU UIOU ANQRWPOU

From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Wed Sep 13 1995 - 09:42:36 EDT


At 5:40 AM 9/13/95, Carl W. Conrad wrote:

>However that may be, I am still troubled by the apparent implication of
>Carlton's understanding of Mark 13, that there will be a considerable gap
>between the destruction of Jerusalem and whatever-you-may-want-to-call the
>ultimate coming of the Son of Man on the clouds. The Marcan text that seems
>to me to run counter to that view is 9:1 (but 14:62 addressed to the
>Sanhedrin leaders seem to me to point in the same direction).
>
>9:1 AMHN LEGW hUMIN hOTI EISIN TINES hWDE TWN hESTHKOTWN hOITINES OU MH
>GEUSWNTAI QANATON hEWS AN IDWSIN THN BASILEIAN TOU QEOU ELHLUQUIAN EN
>DUNAMEI.
>
>This is the same passage that seemed to me crucial in the earlier
>discussion with Jan Haugland. I don't see how the destruction of Jerusalem
>can be characterized by the phrasing "the Kingdom of God HAVING COME WITH
>POWER." This verse and 14:16 really seem to me to indicate that Mark the
>evangelist understood the gap between the destruction of Jerusalem and the
>full realization of God's Kingdom/Reign as short enough for some of those
>now alive (either in Jesus' hearing or at the time of Mark's redaction) to
>experience it as a fait accompli. Is there another way to understand this
>passage?

Correction: Lest there be any confusion about the matter, the reference to
Mark 14:16 in the last paragraph is an error; it should have been 14:62, as
was indicated in the first paragraph cited.

Carl W. Conrad
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