I'd Like to KnowSeason 2023Jan 31, 2023
Defining Daybreak?
Questions answered
3 questionsIn this episode
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I would like to ask pastor Bohr a question relating to the Roman eagle standard. In episode 4 of Matthew 24 series, you mentioned the following: Pompey adopted a God Mithra Pompey made the eagle the sole standard of the Roman legions The eagle standard was linked to the worship of Mithra (sun god) Flavius Josephus said that the legions would put their standard on the ground and worship it. I suppose this also happened in the AD66 siege of Jerusalem. Pastor I am really struggling to find this detail in the wars of the Jews or on the internet. And I really liked the link or typology you made with the first destruction of Jerusalem (Ezekiel 8 abomination), the second one also, and possibly the second one. Can you please help with detailed references of where you got these details from?
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I'm having an issue with the word αὐγῆς which is only used once in the NT and translated as ""daybreak"" in Acts 20:11. Are we to take this to mean ""at sun-rise"" or are we to take this to mean ""at the beginning of the next day"" in an evening-morning cycle? If Paul came to them on the evening of the first day of the week (or our Saturday night) and the text said he would be leaving the next day, that would mean he was to leave on the second day of the week. However, it says Paul talked from that evening, through midnight, and until αὐγῆς or ""daybreak."" If we are to take ""daybreak"" as meaning ""sun-rise"" then it would only be the second half of the first day of the week (or our Sunday morning) rather than during the second day of the week (being our Sunday night till the beginning of our Monday night). But if we are to take ""daybreak"" as meaning ""the start of the next day"" Paul would have been leaving those he was talking to sometime after the evening started on the second day (or our Sunday night). Thus, the only way Paul could have left "the next day"" would be if the word ""αὐγῆς"" actually means ""at the beginning of the next day"" and that Paul left during the evening or morning of the second day of the week. And yet all translations I can find translate αὐγῆς as daybreak, dawn, daylight, and even the break of day, and therefore I struggle.
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