Thursday, May 5, 2011

Matthew 22:31-33

I once heard someone include the wives of the Biblical patriarchs in a list: God of Abraham and Sarah, God of Isaac and Rebekah, God of Jacob and Rachel and Leah. I fell in love with that- after all, are they not the Mothers of Israel? And with Mother's Day approaching, I wanted to choose "mothery" scriptures. Because of this, along with including "and Goddess," verse 32 here gets quite the treatment.


31 But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by Goddess and God, saying,

32 We are the God and Goddess of Abraham and Sarah, and the Goddess and God of Rebekah and Isaac, and the God and Goddess of Jacob and Rachel and Leah? They are not the Goddess and God of the dead, but of the living.

33 And when the multitude heard this, they were astonished at his doctrine.

I love the idea of "the Goddess and God of the living."

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