Monday, October 8, 2012

Some of the church fathers over read the Bible. They would allegorize; they would read meaning into the text that was not there.

John Chrysostom is an example of this. Someone summarized one of his sermons on Matthew 2, where Herod slaughters the baby boys, as

The fact that only the children of two years old and under were murdered while those of three presumably escaped is meant to teach us that those who hold the Trinitarian faith will be saved whereas Binitarians and Unitarians will undoubtedly perish!

Interesting. Pretty far-fetched. (Don't throw him out altogether, though. Read him first.)

1 comments:

dave said...

but quadrinians won't perish?

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