Wednesday, July 10, 2013

The Division of the Tripartate Godhead and איש

As I go through the exegesis of Philo - having already read the Bahir and various Samaritan sources - I can't help but see that the very name איש was understood to be an acronym:

איש

אלהים
יהוה
שטן

The question immediately becomes whether the schema to explain 'yeshu' in Irenaeus (Adv. Haer. 2.22) is a reflection of this original understanding for the name of his God:

ישו

יהוה
שםים
וארץ


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