-Caveat Lector-
In a message dated 99-12-14 13:52:52 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>Actually, there is a sort of underground tradition, mostly in the later New
>Testament apocrypha, that Jesus was in fact an ugly man ...
That tradition seems to have originated with one of the seldom-quoted Old
Testament "prophecies" regarding the coming of the Messiah, therein called, I
believe, the "man of sorrows." When correctly translated from the original
Hebrew, it describes him as a man totally lacking in physical attractveness,
even ugly, AND as socially rejected for his appearance, like a thorn among
roses or whatever. (It's been treated as "just a metaphor" by Christians who
know of it, but the description in context is a literal one, and, apart from
the desire to make the Savior one of the "beautiful people," there's no other
reason to doubt it being a simple statement of fact. To sidestep the
implications of that conclusion, in fact, some Biblicists even resort to a
Talmudic sleight of hand, claiming that "prophecy" refers not to the One Yet
to Come but to MOSES long ago.
My OWN understanding, for what it's worth, is that it refers to NEITHER and
is not a "prophecy" at all but describes an historic person, a "failed"
Messiah ca. 400 BC.)
If no one else comes forward first with the passage in question, which I seem
to recall is found in Second Isaiah, I'll look it up when I have more time
and post it here myself.
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