#159 One Breach in the Wall: Gender Issues | Gender Equality in the Bible
Од стране Jonathan S. Rose
Title: One Breach in the Wall: Gender Issues
Topic: Second Coming
Summary: We examine an issue that makes Scripture repellent to some people--an apparent gender tilt.
Use the reference links below to follow along in the Bible as you watch.
References:
Genesis 2:21-24
1 Chronicles 1:32, 39, 50; 3:10
Matthew 7:12
Zechariah 2:1-2
Leviticus 25:17
Psalms 9:9; 72:1-4
Isaiah 16:4; 58:6; 61:1
Jeremiah 30:20
Ezekiel 22:26-31
Jeremiah 8:18-22
Arcana Coelestia # 8711
8711. 'Men of truth hating gain' means because the truths are pure, devoid of any worldly end in view. This is clear from the meaning of 'men of truth' as pure truths (the reason why 'men of truth' are pure truths is that 'men' means truths, 3134, 5502, and 'truth' means faith, 3121, so that 'men of truth' means the truths of faith, that is, pure truths); and from the meaning of 'hating gain' as detesting the convincing false impressions which falsity and evil create, since 'hating' means detesting and 'gain' falsity and evil that are able to convince people and draw them away from truth and goodness. In general 'gain' means all falsity arising from evil that perverts mental judgements; and since this happens to those with the world as their end in view, men 'hating gain' also means those devoid of any worldly end in view. The fact that 'gain' means all falsity arising from evil that perverts mental judgements and draws a person away from truth and goodness may become clear to anyone who stops to reflect. 'Gain' in this sense is mentioned quite a number of times in the Word, such as in Isaiah 33:15; 56:11; 57:17; Jeremiah 6:13; 8:10; 22:17; Ezekiel 22:27; 33:31; and David, Psalms 119:36.