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f Cf. Matt. xxii. 11-12, vii. 12, = xxii. 37 f. hi.c., the angel of xvii. 1; implied, as in Zech. i. 7, 9 (LXX)?
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6 Contrast ἀδικ. i xiv. 13, Lk. xiv. 15.
1 xxi. 5, xxii. 6; cf. Dan. viii. 26, x. 1, xi. 2, xii. 7. Also
see the fontal passage from Sohar (cited by GfrGrer, ii. 184, 185): traditum est, quod opera bona ab homine hoc in mundo peracta, fiant ipsi uestis pretiosa in mundo illo.
Ver. 9g. The saints are the Bride, but —by a confusion inevitable when the the two cognate figures, apocalyptic and synoptic (Matt. xxii. 2 f.), are combined —they are also the guests at the wed- ding. (The bliss of the next world is termed ‘‘the Banquet ”’ in rabbinic writ- ings, which interpret Exod. xxiv. 11 as though the sight of God were meat and drink to the beholders). Like the Greek πόλις, the church is composed of mem- bers who are ideally distinguishable from her, just as in En. xxxvili, 1 the congrega- tion of the righteous is equivalent to the new Jerusalem. With the idea of 7-9, cf. Pirke Aboth, iv. 23: This world is like a vestibule before the world to come; prepare thyself at the vestibule that thou mayest be admitted into the τρικλίνιον.--ἀληθ. either ‘real’ as op- posed to fanciful and delusive revela- tions, or (if ἀληθ.-- ἀληθής) “ trustworthy words of God’’ (Dan. ii. 9) emphasis- ing the previous beatitude (like vat, λέγει τὸ πνεῦμα xiv. 13). Originally the words (see above) gravely corroborated all the preceding threats and promises (cf. xvii. 17), despite their’ occasionally strange and doubtful look. It is a com- mon reiteration in apoce. (cf. reff.), un- derlining as it were the solemn statements of a given passage. See, ¢.g., Herm. Vis, ΠΠ. 4, ‘‘ that God’s name may be glorified, hath this been revealed to thee, for the sake of those who are of doubtful mind, questioning in their hearts whether this is so or not. Tell them it is all true, that there is nothing but truth in it, that all is sure and valid and founded’’. In Sanhed. Jerus. Rabbi Joc-
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ἀληθινοὶ τοῦ θεοῦ 1 εἰσίν.