| The Apocalypse of ... Esther?? continued Footnotes 1. For examples, see 1 Corinthians 15:45ff., and Ephesians 5:28-33/Genesis 2:21-24. Return 2. In 2 Samuel 7:13 is the much-noted passage regarding David's seed, whose throne God "will establish for ever" -- a play on words of a type, referring (according to Christian theology) to both Solomon and Christ. Return 3. Genesis 10:1, 21; Jasher 9:5, 12:61. Return 4. Carey A. Moore, The Anchor Bible: Esther, xlii, 36, notes that one ancient Greek text reads "Gogaion" [Gog-ite], and another Latin text (the Old Latin Version) reads "Bagogeum" [Bagogite], as the nationality of Haman. Immanuel Velikovsky, Ages in Chaos, 71-72, likewise asserts that Agog should be the correct reading. Return 5. Flavius Josephus, The Antiquities of the Jews, XI, vi, 5, 12. Return 6. The conflict between the brothers actually began before they were even born. While they were yet in their mother Rebekah's womb, "The children struggled together within her." Genesis 25:22 Return 7. Swedenborg, True Christian Religion, n. 200. Return |