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Breakfast with Jesus - #14 - Allegory; were the Patristics right or badly wrong?

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The Multi-Perspectival Reading of Scripture

If you read this passage as a word quote allegorically, and said, well, actually, it's glimpsing towards the incarnation, you'd be getting pretty close to its ultimate truth. That was only of a true fully in Christ that someone trusted God. And then even reading the next verses which are 14 to 18, which is Jeremiah praying for deliverance, he's saying, heal me, O Lord, I shall be healed, save me, and I shall be saved,. You are my praise. This really could almost be read as a prayer of Christ on the cross as we do with Psalm 22. So, the metaphorical reading contrasts with the propositional reading where there's

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