New Article on Syriac Codes in the Gospel

I can't spend a lot of time explaining this latest link but I always come across the stupid - and I mean STUPID - objection against the presence of 'codes' in the gospel. Like Dan Brown 'invented' the idea of codes and ciphers!

Don't these people have any Jewish friends? Haven't they even bothered to study the traditional Jewish interpretation of the Torah? Haven't they read the Church Fathers? Irenaeus makes clear that the idea that the gospel had codes and ciphers embedded in its narrative is older than him.

Anyway here is a fascinating article that I came across in my Syriac Yahoo group. It is explained as follows by the original poster:

Syriac Codes in the Gospel and Islamic World
by Father Dale A. Johnson

The Syriac Bible of Paris has an icon at the beginning of the book of Job. It is a coded message. When we look closely it is not an image of an actual event in the Book of Job. It combines several stages in Job's life. We see Job rending his garment at the top of the image, his friends on the left cursing him. To the right Job is on a dung heap full of sores speaking to his wife below him. The whole image carries a double message. We know the outcome of the story and how
Job declares God as righteous despite all that has happened to him and God rescues Job from his suffering. The image is a code of a deeper message that is fully realized in the message of Jesus Christ in the Good News of the Gospels.

Hidden Codes and messages have been used in many way and for many purposes in all religions and languages. Syriac is no exception.

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