Sunday Music: Bach Cantata BWV 117
It is the twenty-sixth Sunday after Pentecost. The title of today’s Bach cantata is “Sei Lob und Ehr dem höchsten Gut” (Praise and honour be to the highest good).
Today’s Gospel reading is John 18:33-37:
Pilate then went back inside the palace, summoned Jesus and asked him, “Are you the king of the Jews?”
“Is that your own idea,” Jesus asked, “or did others talk to you about me?”
“Am I a Jew?” Pilate replied. “Your own people and chief priests handed you over to me. What is it you have done?”
Jesus said, “My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jewish leaders. But now my kingdom is from another place.”
“You are a king, then!” said Pilate.
Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. In fact, the reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.”
The text of today’s piece is available here. It contains these words:
The host of heaven gives You thanks,
o Sovereign of all kingdoms,
and those in earth, air, and sea
who live in Your shadow
praise Your creative power,
which has held them all in its consideration.
Give honor to our God!
Happy listening! Soli Deo gloria.
[Cross-posted at The Jury Talks Back.]
It is suggested that jesus was the one who paid a visit in Joshua 5
Narciso (7d6b16) — 11/25/2018 @ 12:16 pmwhat I was referring to:
https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/bcc/joshua-5.html
how is this passage interpreted in jewish scripture,
narciso (d1f714) — 11/25/2018 @ 4:23 pmHere is a homily on this reading.
felipe (023cc9) — 11/25/2018 @ 4:33 pmhow is this passage interpreted in jewish scripture,
An angel shows up to get the conquest of Canaan going. Probably the one called Michael.
NB the “captain of the Lord of Hosts” has to be subordinate to the Lord of Hosts, and a member of the Heavenly Host…When God Himself shows up as a warrior, at the Splitting of the Sea in Exodus, there was no mistaking Who It was, and all Israel shared in the theophany, as specified in the Song of the Sea.
This angel’s appearance was essentially a coda to the immediately preceding events: the mass circumcision, the celebration of Passover (both of which had not been performed during the Wilderness years), and the transition from eating manna to the produce of the Land, all necessary before the Israelites were ready to conquer the Land of Israel.
Kishnevi (5b662e) — 11/25/2018 @ 6:27 pm