Very insightful, as always. Both the rise and the fall of Babylon are timeless, I suppose in this sense we could call it prophetic in the foretelling sense? Had to look up the origins of Christian’s interpreting Isaiah 14 to be about the devil, and ironically Origen, Jerome and Tertullian all thought Lucifer to refer to Satan, contrasted to Cyrillus, Eusebius, Hieronymous who thought it referred to Nebuchadnezzar. Wonder if Enoch had anything to do with it…
Very insightful, as always. Both the rise and the fall of Babylon are timeless, I suppose in this sense we could call it prophetic in the foretelling sense? Had to look up the origins of Christian’s interpreting Isaiah 14 to be about the devil, and ironically Origen, Jerome and Tertullian all thought Lucifer to refer to Satan, contrasted to Cyrillus, Eusebius, Hieronymous who thought it referred to Nebuchadnezzar. Wonder if Enoch had anything to do with it…
And the powerful chain of dissident writing continues… Thanks for this important work!
Thank you! I’ve never enjoyed working through a book of the Bible so much.