By: Henry Louis Gates Jr
Adoration of the Magi, artist Nicolas Poussin, 1633
(The Root) -- Amazing Fact About the Negro No. 11: Who was the first black person to see the baby Jesus?
Showing posts with label Queen Candace. Show all posts
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Monday, 24 December 2012
The 1st Black Man to See the Baby Jesus
100 Amazing Facts About the Negro: What do we really know about Balthasar's origins?
By: Henry Louis Gates Jr
Adoration of the Magi, artist Nicolas Poussin, 1633
(The Root) -- Amazing Fact About the Negro No. 11: Who was the first black person to see the baby Jesus?
African Americans have long been fascinated by the presence of black people in the Bible. This concern, for my generation, became quite intense about the time that Rev. Albert Cleage founded the Shrine of the Black Madonna in Detroit in 1967, and many black Christians sought to reconcile their faith with a growing involvement in black cultural nationalist politics.
By: Henry Louis Gates Jr
Adoration of the Magi, artist Nicolas Poussin, 1633
(The Root) -- Amazing Fact About the Negro No. 11: Who was the first black person to see the baby Jesus?
Friday, 2 March 2012
Treasure, Treasurer, Treasury - In The New Testament
II. In the New Testament.
1. Gaza:
There are two words translated "treasure": Gaza is of Persian origin, meaning "treasure." Found only once in Acts 8:27 concerning the Ethiopian "who was over all her (Queen Candace's) treasure." In the compound gazophulakion, "guarding of gaza," the same word appears and the compound is translated "treasury" in Mark 12:41, 43 parallelLuke 21:1 John 8:20.
See TEMPLE; TREASURY (OF TEMPLE).
2. Thesauros:
The word thesauros means literally, a "deposit," so wealth and treasure. Evidently throughout the New Testament it has a twofold usage as describing
(1) material treasure, either money or other valuable material possession, and
(2) spiritual treasure, e.g. "like unto treasure hid in a field" (Matthew 13:44); "good treasure of the heart" (Matthew 12:35).
Other references to material treasure are Matthew 6:21; Matthew 13:52 Luke 12:21, 34, etc. References to spiritual treasure are Matthew 19:21 Mark 10:21 Luke 6:45; Luke 12:33; Luke 18:22; plural Matthew 6:20 Colossians 2:3.
In Matthew 27:6 the word for "treasury" is korbanas; compare the Revised Version margin.
See CORBAN.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
http://bibleencyclopedia.com/treasure.htm
1. Gaza:
There are two words translated "treasure": Gaza is of Persian origin, meaning "treasure." Found only once in Acts 8:27 concerning the Ethiopian "who was over all her (Queen Candace's) treasure." In the compound gazophulakion, "guarding of gaza," the same word appears and the compound is translated "treasury" in Mark 12:41, 43 parallelLuke 21:1 John 8:20.
See TEMPLE; TREASURY (OF TEMPLE).
2. Thesauros:
The word thesauros means literally, a "deposit," so wealth and treasure. Evidently throughout the New Testament it has a twofold usage as describing
(1) material treasure, either money or other valuable material possession, and
(2) spiritual treasure, e.g. "like unto treasure hid in a field" (Matthew 13:44); "good treasure of the heart" (Matthew 12:35).
Other references to material treasure are Matthew 6:21; Matthew 13:52 Luke 12:21, 34, etc. References to spiritual treasure are Matthew 19:21 Mark 10:21 Luke 6:45; Luke 12:33; Luke 18:22; plural Matthew 6:20 Colossians 2:3.
In Matthew 27:6 the word for "treasury" is korbanas; compare the Revised Version margin.
See CORBAN.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
http://bibleencyclopedia.com/treasure.htm
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