Boid on Names

Just an isolated remark. If a royal dynasty or priestly family used the name Antipater meaning “equivalent to a father”, short form Antipas, then it would probably distinguish successive generations by alternating this name with Cleopater, meaning “famed father” or “illustrious father”, short form Cleopas, Aramaic Clopa, Aramaic with Greek case ending Clopas.

Have you noticed this in A.F.? The followers of Dositheos said “The dead will rise soon as children of Dositheos the Prophet of God”; and again, “Our faith is in thee, Lord. and in Dositheos, and his sons and daughters”. (These are the correct translations of what is in the accurate mss. They are not to be found in print anywhere except in the notes to my article “Use, Authority and Exegesis of Mikra in the Samaritan Tradition”. Please quote my name if this information is used). The follwers of Sakta called him “our father Sakta”.

It says in John ch. I that Jesus gave his followers the power (loaded Sam. term!) to become children of God. The meaning is that he gave them the powere to become what he was, to become “little Christs”. This means the followers become sons of God by becoming sons of Jesus the son of God. . As everyone is a child of God already, according to the Torah in several places (Exodus II, Deut. XXXII, etc.), and as Adam was the son of God, according to Matthew’s genealogical list, it follows that what is accomplished is the enablement of what is latent. This I think is why Paul says the redemption of the whole of Creation or the whole world depends on the coming of the children (sons) of God. The followers are made into children of God and then their existence and the way they act in all details starts to activate the rising of the created world to its right level, or the raising of the sparks hidden everywhere to their proper level. “For God so loved the WORLD that he sent the Unique Son etc.” (The Evangelicals gloss over the word “world” because they can’t handle it). This is a familiar kabbalistic concept.