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2025-10-06T22:26:31-04:00

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Last updated on: October 6, 2025 at 10:26 pm By Gabriel Blanchard

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A Few Words on Luke’s Outline This past Sunday’s Gospel came from Luke 12. This places it in the middle of the book (Luke has 24 chapters of, very roughly, similar length). Now, I haven’t hitherto said much about the structure of Luke, and there’s a reason for that: It hasn’t got much. There is one, in an extremely general sense—a three-part structure sort of shared by Matthew and John (Mark has only the second and third parts of this... Read more

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2025-10-06T22:27:25-04:00

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A Parable for Our Times

Last updated on: October 6, 2025 at 10:27 pm By Gabriel Blanchard

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The Parable of the Rich Man and His Barns From a translator’s point of view, tomorrow’s Gospel passage is quite simple; nor is it complicated theologically. I think it’s absolutely unprecedented that I don’t even have any footnotes! It is, also, a very unwelcome Gospel for today’s society. We like thinking of our income and our property as ours. This parable from Luke simply tell us bluntly that they’re not. The best advice I have to offer—not that it’s very... Read more

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2025-10-06T22:28:21-04:00

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Thou Shalt Nag the Lord Thy God

Last updated on: October 6, 2025 at 10:28 pm By Gabriel Blanchard

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Luke 11 Bethany today, located in the West Bank, adjacent to Jerusalem. Photo by Tomer Hu, used under a CC BY-SA 3.0 license (source). The Gospel for this past Sunday (the Seventeenth in Ordinary Time, or Sixth after Trinity by the English calendar) contains the Lord’s Prayer and some of Jesus’ teaching about it. By an intriguing coincidence, this is also the chapter of Luke in which we meet SS. Martha and Mary of Bethany, in probably their most famous... Read more

2025-10-06T22:38:51-04:00

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Are Our Bibles in the Wrong Order?—Part IV

Last updated on: October 6, 2025 at 10:38 pm By Gabriel Blanchard

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This post is part of a series. Part I: The Septuagint and the Masoretic Text Part II: The Outline of the Hebrew Bible Part III: The Biblical Centrality of the Temple ⇒ Part IV: The Blueprint of the New Testament Also: All of my content has always been free to read since I began this blog; however, in case you hadn’t come across it and would like to support me, I have a Patreon. I mention it because I’m coming up... Read more

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2025-10-06T22:35:10-04:00

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Are Our Bibles in the Wrong Order?—Part III

Last updated on: October 6, 2025 at 10:35 pm By Gabriel Blanchard

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This post is part of a series. Part I: The Septuagint and the Masoretic Text Part II: The Outline of the Hebrew Bible ⇒ Part III: The Biblical Centrality of the Temple Part IV: The Blueprint of the New Testament Also: All of my content has always been free to read since I began this blog; however, in case you hadn’t come across it and would like to support me, I have a Patreon. I mention it because I’m coming up... Read more

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2025-10-06T22:33:04-04:00

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Are Our Bibles in the Wrong Order?—Part II

Last updated on: October 6, 2025 at 10:33 pm By Gabriel Blanchard

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This post is part of a series. Part I: The Septuagint and the Masoretic Text ⇒ Part II: The Outline of the Hebrew Bible Part III: The Biblical Centrality of the Temple Part IV: The Blueprint of the New Testament Also: All of my content has always been free to read since I began this blog; however, in case you hadn’t come across it and would like to support me, I have a Patreon. I mention it because I’m coming... Read more

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2025-10-06T22:39:57-04:00

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The Parable of the Good Schismatic Heretic

Last updated on: October 6, 2025 at 10:39 pm By Gabriel Blanchard

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He Did Not Have to Go Through Samaria Note: This post does not continue from my last; I’ll be resuming that series shortly. This one is the usual weekly Gospel translation and commentary. Samaritans observing Passover on Mount Gerizim in 2006. Photo by Edward Karpov, used under a CC BY-SA 3.0 license (source). The Gospel passage this Sunday was one of the Lord’s most beloved parables, that of the “Good Samaritan.” This stands out, because Samaritans appear only irregularly in... Read more

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2025-10-06T22:31:19-04:00

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Are Our Bibles in the Wrong Order?—Part I

Last updated on: October 6, 2025 at 10:31 pm By Gabriel Blanchard

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This post is part of a series. ⇒ Part I: The Septuagint and the Masoretic Text Part II: The Outline of the Hebrew Bible Part III: The Biblical Centrality of the Temple Part IV: The Blueprint of the New Testament First of All, No. That’s sort of a nonsense question. The order we read things in can make a difference to how clearly we understand them, or the impression they leave on us; but, e.g., the statements “the sky is... Read more

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2025-10-06T22:41:15-04:00

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St. Paul’s Gotta Lot of Problems With You People,

Last updated on: October 6, 2025 at 10:41 pm By Gabriel Blanchard

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The Solemnity of SS. Peter and Paul This past Sunday, we celebrated the martyrdoms of St. Peter and St. Paul. This is kind of unusual: Solemnities are often displaced by Sundays. Advent, Lent, and Eastertide all rely fairly strongly on their week-by-week structure as seasons, so their Sundays take precedence (and most solemnities are either directly tied to Easter, or fall somewhere from December to March); however, Trinitytide has comparatively little structure, so most of its Sundays give way to... Read more

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2025-10-06T22:41:54-04:00

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There Is, Very Rarely, Such a Thing as Free Lunch

Last updated on: October 6, 2025 at 10:41 pm By Gabriel Blanchard

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Well, at Least Once, Anyway I thought I had translated two other Gospels’ accounts of this miracle before—John’s last July, and Mark’s … at some point. In truth, I had bamboozled myself: Just before translating John’s account of the feeding of the five thousand,1 I translated Mark’s lead-in to this miracle, which by itself was our Gospel text for the Sunday before we started in on John. Loaves and fishes from the Catacombs of Callixtus (3rd century?). This miracle is... Read more

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