Tag: Galatians

Galatians 2:14 (XLT) ‘But this other (happened)’ when ‘I saw’ that ‘they did not walk straight-up’[1] ‘interfacing with’ the ‘un-concealed reality’ ‘of the’ ‘rosy message of it being done-well’. /

…that ‘they did not step orthographically’ (in the way of the cross, the four tassels’ crossway, and the living wheels bisecting wheels perpendicular cross pattern in Ezekiel that was upholding the resemblance of the ideal Human Son) ‘for interfacing with’ the True-Reality ‘of the’ “Best News Ever!”

‘I simply said’ ‘relationally with Cephas (the Construction Stone)’ ‘in the sight of’ all, “If you, yourself, ‘starting out from under being’ (a) Jew, actively-live ‘as a person of any nation’ and not Jewishly, (then) ‘how is possible for’ ‘you in compelling’ the ‘people of any nation’ ‘to be Jewish folk’?

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[1] G3716 ortho-podeó = upright, straight up, even perpendicular + to move feet = to walk straight-lined, uprightly, in-line. This word is only used here. And given the crucified life, TJPs, and the crucified life context before and after, it is likely Paul has in mind a variety of passages with orthographic and orthogonal imagery such as the four tassels (Tzitzit) as four corners of a robe, four horns of The Altar, the bisecting wheel-rings of Ezekiel 1 and 10, and even other temple imagery such as how you enter and encamp around the four facades. There are other types of OT references such as Pro 2:7’s “walk uprightly (with integrity), but it is the orthogonal, right-angled images that speak “cross and crucified life” behind the words and stories. Literally, in this story moment, these Jews are wearing robes with tassels. And this word, and one look down towards your feet, will conflate all this imagery that silently asks “And I crucified with Christ? Am I walking as He did as “slain Lamb standing?” And the LORD said to Moses, “Speak to the Israelites and tell them that throughout the generations to come they are to make for themselves tassels for the corners of their garments, with a blue cord on each tassel. These will serve as tassels for you to look at, so that you may remember all the commandments of the LORD, that you may obey them and not prostitute yourselves by following your own heart and your own eyes (Num 15:37-39 BSB). This is an Altar inspired walk because they share the four corners (Rom 12’s living sacrifice). This is a North-South & East-West walk like how the temple was oriented and how people dwelled orthogonally in the shape of a cross relative to the temple as God’s Dwelling (Num 2). IOW, it is how we dwell together. This is the “open heaven visions of God” Ezekiel saw in Eze 1 and 10 of wheel-ring bisecting wheel-ring so that those wheels only moved in orthogonal directions North-South & East-West. The life was in those wheels as they moved – moved what? The wheel-rings carried God’s platform and throne upon which He governed in the form of a man (Eze 1:26). This is the core of God’s Dwelling Place Ezekiel has been brought into in order to see that God’s Ways are precisely in the pattern of the crucified life. Normally the high priest would enter orthogonally, but with Ezekiel, God comes to Him from the heavenly True Temple-Dwelling that the Holy of Holies of earthly manufacture merely represented. As I’ve said in Spiritual Knowledge, it is “perpendicular.” In my book, I initially meant that it was not seeable in the normal course of life and always came at us like a blind-sided revelation. Then I progress in the book to explain the cross-shaped nature of life that we can only engage in by Jesus’s Holy Spirit. Thus, when God walked in the “cool of the day” in Gen 3:8, it was really the literal meaning of “in the Spirit of the Day,” this Spirit essentially declaring “be focused on the cross as the end to a flesh living for itself.” Hearing this, Adam and Eve freshly awakened into a new state of “flesh living for self-preservation,” reacted self-defensively and hid from what sounded like death, but was the crucified life that never ceases to increase when people have everything to give for others. That leads to the life is in the wheel-rings that bisect to form a cross from a perpendicular point of view. But my emphasis here is what I believe Paul is triggering by use of this word to Peter, whether said in Greek or Aramaic-Hebrew like HaLaK ToM.