mark wrote:

  • In Genesis 49:11, what do you think is meant by "the blood of grapes"?
  • In 1 Cor 10:16, what did Paul mean when he says that the cup is a "participation in the blood of Christ" (and the bread "a participation in the body of Christ")?
  • Is it possible that Exodus 12 sets a reasonable precedent for the the idea of the people consuming the meat of the sacrifice?

Mark, the Hebrew word for blood, דָּם (DAM), appears twice in the Hebrew Bible in the context of "juice", at Genesis 49:11 and at Deuteronomy 32:14, both of which are poetic passages, i.e., these are poetic applications of the word.  Can you say the same for the passage in the GT?

What Paul may be saying has no real relevance to Exodus 12, except in the "wishful thinking" department.  I realize that Christians like to create scenarios of "types and shadows", but they are always completely out-of-context to the actual passages in the Hebrew Bible.  In Exodus 12 the pascal lamb was roasted and eaten, and the leftovers had to be burnt.  Was the same done with yeshu?  If you say this was only symbolic, it is still cannibalism.  Perhaps this is the reason that all but 12 of yeshu's followers fled (John 6:66 - wow, look at the digits...smiley: wink), because cannibalism, even in symbolic form, was repugnant to them.

UriYosef

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