Watching TV yesterday night was Discovery? Channel with The Face of Jesus and Story of Jesus...some neat stuff...the bathing pool for common and crippled people behind the Temple...and how Jesus didn't exclude...and even sought out..the company of ...well...most of us!...I thought a good emphasis!...and I want to see if I can find that Roman god of healing that had the temple there...brb...
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5. The Pool of Bethesda: INDEX The name of this ancient pool in Jerusalem could mean "place of mercy" or "place of outpouring." It was constructed in the riverbed of the Beth Zetha valley in the northeastern part of Jerusalem. (Today the pool may be seen just inside St. Stephen’s gate on the east side of the city, adjacent to the Church of St. Ann.) The Pool of Bethesda actually consisted of two pools whose original purpose was for the washing of sheep to be sacrifice in the temple area nearby.
By the first century, the pool had become known as a place of healing, either by God or by pagan deities. If, as is likely, the pool had been dedicated to pagan gods at that time, including Asclepias, the Greek-Roman god of healing, Jesus’ healing of the lame man (John 5:1-9) would have demonstrated publicly His superiority over these gods.
By the first century, the pool had become known as a place of healing, either by God or by pagan deities. If, as is likely, the pool had been dedicated to pagan gods at that time, including Asclepias, the Greek-Roman god of healing, Jesus’ healing of the lame man (John 5:1-9) would have demonstrated publicly His superiority over these gods.
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site is a walkabout of Jerusalem!!..and that bit is very like what was in the show...
Ascelepias has a Greek antecedent I think...brb...
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Carolus Linnaeus named the genus after Asclepius, the Greek god of healing, because of the many folk-medicinal uses for the milkweed plants.
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Linnaeus seemed to think he was Adam!
helps to have right spelling...brb...
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Coronis (or Arsinoe) became pregnant with Asclepius by Apollo but fell in love with Ischys, son of Elatus. A crow informed Apollo of the affair and he sent his sister, Artemis, to kill Coronis. Her body was burned on a funeral pyre, staining the white feathers of the crows permanently black. Apollo rescued the baby by performing the first caesarean section and gave it to the centaur Chiron to raise. Enraged by his grief, Coronis' father Phlegyas torched the Apollonian temple at Delphi, for which Apollo promptly killed him.
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snagged that for the crows as much as anything!...apparently they were Apollo's eyes and ears, like Ravens were Odin's!...which indeed is the case!..
story of Apollo the Crow here:
brb...
think I've come across a few of the "palliative" sort!
But wiki has a fine page here on the early history of medicine...brb...
Here's wiki's page on Epidarus...a place I couldn't recall in earlier post...but a god and cult that in some way resemble the Christian movement...both Jesus and Asclepius as healers...brb
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The claims of the Asclepius cult came into direct conflict with Christianity, wherein the God of Abraham is the ruler of all things and Jesus is recognized as "Savior of the World" (Jhn. 4:42). In the second century a struggle broke out in Pergamon between the followers of Jesus and Asclepius. Many Christians had been martyred in Pergamon. Evidence of this conflict comes from the Revelation, where the angel gives a message to the church of Pergamon: "I know where you are living, where Satan's throne is" (Rev. 2: 13a). The throne of Satan is the Asclepius shrine at Pergamon. This is proven by the image of the god, sitting on a throne with a serpent, on coins excavated by archeologists (Rengstorf 1953, 28). As early as the reign of Emperor Domitian, the image of Asclepius began to appear on the coins of the city. Domitian ruled between 81-96 C.E., when Revelation was written. The serpent of Asclepius was also a coat of arms for Pergamon and its identification with Satan meant that the cult was the dragon of the apocalypse: "The great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world-he was thrown down to the earth.... " (Rev. 12:9
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Oh...I think there are some reaches in that!...and shoehorning to make things fit!..but the author has command of the scholaship texts...which I dont...lemesee if I can find a kinder comparison of Jesus and Asclepius...lots of side by sides out there on the web!...brb... biography page of szondi...note the Nurmemberg trial bit...
well...now where was I...brb...this side by side from PBS page is kinder...and has a lot of other side by sides, notably Isis!...
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One of the most popular deities of all is Asclepius, the healing God, and it's often suggested that Jesus is kind of modeled after a new or a younger Asclepius.
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And I'll let that site have the final say for this post!...as I get quickly out of my depth with theology!
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Write in a book what thou seest, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.
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—Revelation 1:11
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But I might track out these cities tomorrow!...
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