tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13873773.post4251750080317414947..comments2023-09-17T08:45:50.720-04:00Comments on Stuff Out Loud: An Interesting Parallel and the Gospel in the OTLarryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04886866662463467215noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13873773.post-55732674256004761642013-02-07T16:27:56.655-05:002013-02-07T16:27:56.655-05:00I don't the moralism police would accuse of mo...I don't the moralism police would accuse of moralism because you haven't committed the "do better" or "do this and live" error (iow, your aim seems to be a call to faith, not a call to "behave").<br /><br />I don't think it is allegory because you are applying the text in your conclusion. You are not saying that Moses is Christ, or that they are the Egyptians or Midianites. You seem to be doing what Kaiser calls principalizing. Others use the word abstraction to describe finding what is common between the truth in Scipture and the present situation. That seems close to what you have done.<br /><br />I suppose I'd feel a level of comfort in your pointing out the parallel based on how Stephen incorporates Moses' rejection into his sermon in Acts. He says there that Moses expected them to recognize him as a deliverer--which clearly means that Moses thought of himself in that way. And Stephen seems to develop his sermon along the lines of the rejection, so he sees it as a clear and important component of the narrative (and of Israel's failure). To be clear, I am not saying that it should be read back into it because Stephen says these things, but that what you've pointed out in the text seems to be similar to the way that Stephen was looking at it.<br /><br />DMDAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13873773.post-83128818969879108522013-02-04T16:59:05.355-05:002013-02-04T16:59:05.355-05:00Thanks for wrestling aloud with these passages.Thanks for wrestling aloud with these passages.DJPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16471042180904855578noreply@blogger.com