Wednesday, April 11, 2012

This is Weird

Klein, Blomberg, and Hubbard’s Introduction to Biblical Interpretation (1993 ed.) and Leland Ryken’s Words of Delight: A Literary Introduction to the Bible (1992 ed.) both address Proverbs beginning on p. 313.

Hmm …

Kind of makes me want to search other hermeneutics books to see if there is some hidden meaning that we have been missing.

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4 comments:

Kent Brandenburg said...

God is Wisdom, Proverbs is Wisdom, God's Wisdom is Perfect, the number 7 is the number of perfection, and if you add up 313, 3 + 1 + 3, it equals "7," which is the number of perfection. I felt my tinfoil hat buzzing.

4/12/2012 3:52 PM
Jon Gleason said...

Hmm.

1. I John 5:7-8 mentions three, then one, then three (3-1-3), and then agreement in unity. To agree with this is wisdom.

2. 313 is a prime number. Wisdom is indivisible.

3. Seven is perfection. God is a perfect Trinity. 7 to the 3rd (7*7*7) is 343 (perfected wisdom). Wisdom could never be perfected until Christ, who began teaching Wisdom at 30. Subtract 30 from perfected wisdom, and you have pre-Christ wisdom (Proverbs), 313.

See where it takes you when you start reading evangelicals?

OK, I'm done. I should have been done before I began, but you guys started it, so I blame you.

4/13/2012 5:45 AM
Larry said...

Interesting. Certainly some good preaching material there. But I wonder if you guys aren't missing the obvious: 313 is my area code, and that means I have wisdom so you should be listening to me.

4/13/2012 6:51 AM
Jon Gleason said...

If my wisdom were rooted in where I live, I doubt I'd be talking about it on the Internet! :)

4/14/2012 2:52 PM

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