In this week’s program, Fr. Paul begins his discussion of Leviticus, drawing on passages from Ezekiel and Numbers to illustrate how characters in the story twist the command of God. (Episode 284)
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The Utterances of God
This week, Fr. Paul concludes his discussion of the Exodus. (Episode 283)
Even AI Cannot Depict This
This week, Fr. Paul notes the grammatical interconnection between Exodus and Revelation, which highlights the iconoclastic function of the Tent of Meeting, in which the Tabernacle, covered by the Tent, covers the Tabernacle, a warning that you are to live in the open wilderness, and not as the nations do, in temples of stone. (Episode…
The Ultimate Covenant
In this week’s program, Fr. Paul explains that we are paying a high price for the false teaching of theologians who cannot hear or understand Scripture because they are too busy defending their own theology, which emasculates the throne of the Judge, resulting in violence. (Episode 281)
The Five Fingers
This week, Fr. Paul underscores the centrality of shepherd life over city life in the Book of Exodus, specifically in its presentation of the Tent of Meeting. He also notes how the story emphasizes God rather than Moses as its author. (Episode 280)
People Do Not Change
This week, Fr. Paul resumes his discussion of Exodus, noting that the story was written to test God’s people, taking their failure into consideration from the very beginning. (Episode 279)
A Process of Judgment
This week, Fr. Paul continues his exegesis of Ezekiel as a background for his comprehensive study of Exodus, taking time to explain that the parabolic admonition of Jesus in Matthew can only be understood against the backdrop of the Hebrew terminology of the Mosaic Law. (Episode 278)
I Gave Them Statutes That Were Not Good
In today’s program, Fr. Paul reads from the text of Ezekiel to illustrate how hearers of the Bible misconstrue the Book of Exodus. (Episode 277)
Set Free From You
This week, Fr. Paul explains that rest is assigned by God on the Sabbath and in the Sabbatical and Jubilee years, not for the sake of man but for the benefit of the adamah, the animals who do most of the work, the foreigner, and the needy neighbor. (Episode 276)
For I Am Compassionate
This week Fr. Paul explains that those who are called sons and daughters of God — the insiders, so to speak — are special. Yes, you heard me correctly. You are special, but not as it is portrayed in our various theologies or, for that matter, any number of religious websites, where special means better…