Not a Priest According to the God of the First Testament
No one who had a deformity could be a Priest or enter the Temple for service. Lepers could not enter. Gentiles could not enter. There were strict cleansing routines. Women were considered impure for a time every month and could not enter until they bathed in the purification waters (hence the significance of there being healing purification waters at Lourdes where the Blessed Mother showed up) Jewish Priests were not "eunichs."
The "Eunichs For The Kingdom" reference is not a reference to Priesthood. It is a reference to functions of eunich-hood. Eunichs guarded highly placed women- because they could be trusted not to seduce them. They held trusted places in a "Queen's Court" for example (the Ethiopian Queen in one case we all know about) because the King would trust nothing would happen. They could be body guards. They were sort of butlers in household service. They could be a priest's household help. They could guard treasuries because they didn't have families typically and thus less need for larger material provision. They were cheaper to keep.
"Eunichs for the Kingdom" were servants doing things that could not be priestly service functions because they would not be allowed to enter the Holy of Holies in the Temple.
How does your world change if the Wedding at Cana was Jesus' wedding?
A hypothesis Worthy of More Linguistic Investigation:
Is the name "Magdalene" or "Magdalena" a diminutive nick name rather than a town attribution for Mary. (He made nick names for all his pals, there was Peter, his Rock, the Sons of Thunder, etc...)
It comes from "Migdal"-same Hebrew derrivative which appears in English as variously Magdal (ene means it's female) or Migdal. Now read
Micah 4:8. There, the proverbial Daughter of Zion is called a Tower (as in Tower of Strength) or "WatchTower." (Crossref. WatchTower)- Was Jesus calling Mary his Tower of Strengh, his WatchTower, this Daughter of Zion.
Perhaps this is why there are so many belltowers called Magdalene Tower (google it;one at Magdalene College, Oxford, one in Ireland, etc...)
Was Jesus affectionately calling Mary, this daughter of Zion, once plagued with 7 demons, his Tower of Strengh, his WatchTower? Would that be like calling someone "my better half" "my guardian angel" or simply - "my Love."
No one who had a deformity could be a Priest or enter the Temple for service. Lepers could not enter. Gentiles could not enter. There were strict cleansing routines. Women were considered impure for a time every month and could not enter until they bathed in the purification waters (hence the significance of there being healing purification waters at Lourdes where the Blessed Mother showed up) Jewish Priests were not "eunichs."
The "Eunichs For The Kingdom" reference is not a reference to Priesthood. It is a reference to functions of eunich-hood. Eunichs guarded highly placed women- because they could be trusted not to seduce them. They held trusted places in a "Queen's Court" for example (the Ethiopian Queen in one case we all know about) because the King would trust nothing would happen. They could be body guards. They were sort of butlers in household service. They could be a priest's household help. They could guard treasuries because they didn't have families typically and thus less need for larger material provision. They were cheaper to keep.
"Eunichs for the Kingdom" were servants doing things that could not be priestly service functions because they would not be allowed to enter the Holy of Holies in the Temple.
How does your world change if the Wedding at Cana was Jesus' wedding?
A hypothesis Worthy of More Linguistic Investigation:
Is the name "Magdalene" or "Magdalena" a diminutive nick name rather than a town attribution for Mary. (He made nick names for all his pals, there was Peter, his Rock, the Sons of Thunder, etc...)
It comes from "Migdal"-same Hebrew derrivative which appears in English as variously Magdal (ene means it's female) or Migdal. Now read
Micah 4:8. There, the proverbial Daughter of Zion is called a Tower (as in Tower of Strength) or "WatchTower." (Crossref. WatchTower)- Was Jesus calling Mary his Tower of Strengh, his WatchTower, this Daughter of Zion.
Perhaps this is why there are so many belltowers called Magdalene Tower (google it;one at Magdalene College, Oxford, one in Ireland, etc...)
Was Jesus affectionately calling Mary, this daughter of Zion, once plagued with 7 demons, his Tower of Strengh, his WatchTower? Would that be like calling someone "my better half" "my guardian angel" or simply - "my Love."
Read this and Learn Something I bet You Never Thought About:
To Mary he said: She has followed the better course- right beside him, close to him, listening to him rather than busying herself with Martha's chores.
Jesus told off Judas- a male disciple- for objecting to her dousing him with expensive oils- he defended her against the budgetary objections.
STILL CONFUSED??:http://magdal-eder.nventure.com/
What's in a name? EVERYTHING. Click on their "About our name" page.
What's in a name? EVERYTHING. Click on their "About our name" page.
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