Sunday, July 7, 2013
The Most Significant 'His Man' Reference in Tertullian
About the Jews - "nec hominem ejus ut alienum judicaverunt" (Against Marcion 3.6). This has to be taken in the context of consistent references to the Marcionites borrowing from Jewish tradition to establish the existence of the angelic איש figure (cf. previous posts). The emphasis here on the same Jews actually seeing Jesus and not judging him to be the איש in the context of describing Jesus as 'His man' (= אישו) is very unusual. I tend to view hominem ejus as an Aramaism.
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dating back to conversations with his grandfather, Gaston Frank. "He said we represent one of the last descendants of the Frankist Jewish faith in the world," he muses. "I grew up thinking that our family was something like the Last of the Mohicans."