My Instincts Were Right About Clement and the Book of Jubilees

That brilliant professor Peter Jeffrey has apparently made it known that he thinks that the opinions of 'amateur scholars' should be ignored when it comes to the debate about the authenticity of To Theodore. So let's segue slightly to the issue of whether Clement IN HIS EXISTING WRITINGS (i.e. those outside of To Theodore) thinks that the Jewish religion functioned with an exoteric and esoteric Torah.

What? you ask. 'Everyone knows that the Jews only had one Law.' Oh of course, Jeffrey. I forgot, you are a professor of music and I am an amateur scholar. Well let's turn the microphone over to my best friend Professor Rory Boid who is a REAL SCHOLAR and not of music or basket weaving but a PROFESSOR (and not in the debased North American sense of that term) and one of the greatest authorities on the Old Testament. He wrote to me today noting:

Jubilees calls the Pentateuch “the first Torah”. Jubilees claims to have been copied by Moses from the words of God and from the dictation of the Angel of the Presence (or Face) Mal’ach ha-Panim reading from heavenly tablets.

Now why does this matter in any discussion of things related to the authenticity of To Theodore? Ah, of course - people like Jeffrey think that everything about the past was 'pretty much the same as it is today.'

Jeffrey likes to think that the liturgy of Clement's day 'was just like the liturgy' of Alexandria in the fourth century. Jeffrey thinks that the idea of the Alexandrian community preserving TWO gospels - one exoteric and the other esoteric - is just something Morton Smith made up.

Yet if Clement clearly testifies to the angelic 'Instructor' of his community - i.e. Jesus - giving Moses TWO laws, one carnal, the other spiritual, why is it so crazy to think that the gospel which was the 'new Torah' of Israel wouldn't have developed along similar lines?

The passage in Clement again is:

For the Instructor, by Moses, deprived them of the use of innumerable things, adding reasons--the spiritual ones hidden; the carnal ones apparent, to which indeed they have trusted; in the case of some animals, because they did not part the hoof, and others because they did not ruminate their food, and others because alone of aquatic animals they were devoid of scales; so that altogether but a few were left appropriate for their food. [Paedagogue 2.1]

In my mind there can BE NO DOUBT that Clement is here referring to the Book of Jubilees which as we noted earlier was given to Moses by means of revelation from the Angel of the Presence.

But ... doesn't that mean that Clement REALLY THOUGHT that Jesus was the Angel of the Presence who was with the ancient Israelites when they made their Exodus from Egypt? Oh yes, the apostle says this doesn't he when he writes that

they all ate the same spiritual food 4and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was XC [1 Cor 10:3]

Yes we have had the idea that XC has to mean 'Christ' but the context clearly refutes that. The messiah was not present at the Exodus you morons. The messiah is a temporal king. The Marcionites and all the Egyptian Christians KNEW that XC meant 'Chrestos' here and as I have already demonstrated a number of times here - Chrestos is used in the LXX to translate the Hebrew word yashar which is the root of the name Israel/Sariel (Samaritan Hebrew doesn't distinguish between sin and shin).

Jesus was the angel of the Presence folks. Your guides have been lying to you for centuries, even you Jeffrey. Your father didn't know the truth, nor did his father, nor the long chain of European ancestors before you. The Alexandrians knew the truth because they came from a Semitic tradition which had little to do with what eventually formed in Rome under the Emperor Commodus.

Jesus was the angel of the Presence and the messiah was someone else ...