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Originally Posted by Drake
According to the footnote you referenced, what is the definition of
1. Nature
2. Shape
3. Purpose
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Maybe you can post the entire footnote for our readers? That would be helpful. I don't have a RecV handy at present.
I have been pointing out the fruits of the footnote, as indicative of it's source, and thus it's "true meaning" or "reality", but if you want to discuss the actual arrangement of words on paper please post them.
Let's do discuss definitions.
Also, where did Lee get the idea that the lampstands were "exactly identical"? Are you and I "exactly identical"? I think there is a hidden meaning here, a push for control, which aligns with cultural preconceptions of leadership, which is probably what Jesus taught as "the way of the gentiles". This is, I posit, a "Chinese-flavoured (i.e. gentile)" interpretive model imposed on scripture. At it's source, however, someone is angling for control.
Let me give an example, from similarly placed source, the NT. 1 Cor 1:10 "Speak the same thing". Now, there is a way to interpret that which still honours the Spirit of Jesus Christ. Love one another. God raised Jesus from the dead. Repent and confess.
Or there is another way - unless you take arcane doctrinal position, "x", you will be expelled from the "Christian" assembly. In both cases, the first and the second, you are "speaking the same thing". But in the second case, the letter of Paul is used to quench the Spirit of Christ.
Because the letter of Paul is improperly appropriated, according to personal motives and directed by culturally-mediated ignorance. Don't forget thousands of years have passed since these words were written, and now we have liberty to percolate them through our gentile brains and come up with all sorts of nonsense.
Sorry for writing so much. Just thinking aloud here.