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Commentary by the church - the Eastern Orthodox Church, which canonized the bible - is the only coherent ideology which hasn't innovated in dogmas and reconcile
by salemh 5y ago
Commentary by the church - the Eastern Orthodox Church, which canonized the bible - is the only coherent ideology which hasn't innovated in dogmas and reconciles all the 'hard' scriptures Old and New.
Individual interpretations outside of a conciliar approach to Christianity (which started in the Book of Acts with the Counsel of Jerusalem, and continued into the Ecumenical Councils) has never resulted in anything but sectarianism and confusion.
At least from a perspective of consistency, readers may be interested in the perspective of conciliar, dogmatic foundations which cannot be changed in the Eastern Orthodox Church.
As regards for Mark 11:
https://catenabible.com/mk/11 https://catenabible.com/mk/11
This website provides a range of commentaries which one can choose the earliest Church Fathers. However, blessed Theophylact is the most accessible commentary, largely based on St John Chrysostom, which is a harder read due to depth and language.
Cyril of Jerusalem AD 386
Remember at the time of the sin of Adam and Eve they clothed themselves—with what? Fig leaves. That was their first act after the fall. So now Jesus is making the same figure of the fig tree the very last of his wondrous signs. Just as he was headed toward the cross, he cursed the fig tree—not every fig tree, but that one alone for its symbolic significance—saying: “May no one ever eat fruit of you again.” In this way the curse laid upon Adam and Eve was being reversed. For they had clothed themselves with fig leaves.
St John Chrysostom:
https://catenabible.com/com/5735de63ec4bd7c9723b9c17 https://catenabible.com/com/5735de63ec4bd7c9723b9c17
Eastern Orthodox history of the canonization of scripture:
http://orthodoxinfo.com/inquirers/ntcanon_emergence.aspx http://orthodoxinfo.com/inquirers/ntcanon_emergence.aspx