Theos-Talk Archives (August 2004 Message tt00046)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bartl@s...> wrote:
> krishtar wrote:
> > 4.Evil is not what comes from manīs mouth but what comes out of 
it.(
> > according to Gospel )
> 
> I assume you mean not what "evil is not what goes into a 
man's mouth". 
> However, I WOULD like to point out that Jesus was referring to a 
fouler 
> substance than meat; he was talking about people who did not wash 
their 
> hands before eating.

True, but the deeper meaning was that he was an antinomian, which is 
one of numerous reasuns to believe he studied in Egypt. The 
underlying idea of the antinomians was that all the Jewish ritual 
stuff had an esoteric meaning, and that the literal observance was 
not important and even displayed ignorance of the deeper 
significance. Philo of Alexandria, who was an eminent student of the 
esoteric hypothesis, wrote against antinomianism in one of his books, 
for which reason it is apparent it started at least by the beginning 
of the first century, probably long before. The point was not merely 
to eat with unwashed hands but to flout the ceremonial rules 
regarding eating. J also made a point of healing on the sabbath, 
etc., all of which was part of the antinomian thing.