182 - The Key to How I Interpret Scripture

The Symbolic World

Jonathan Pageau

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Education

4.8 • 824 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

I look at 3 stanzas in St. Ephrem’s book ‘Hymns on Paradise’, as well as some of my recent episodes about Scripture and a short text from the Gospel of St. Matthew about St. Peter walking on water. Hopefully this can give listeners a clue as to how I draw different texts together to think about symbolism in Scripture. Hymns on Paradise: St. Ephrem the Syrian – Translated by Sebastian Brock: https://svspress.com/hymns-on-paradise-st-ephrem-the-syrian/ Original video: https://youtu.be/MedVllu0R2Y Support this podcast: Website: https://thesymbolicworld.com/support/ Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/pageauvideos Subscribestar: https://www.subscribestar.com/jonathan-pageau Paypal: http://www.paypal.me/JonathanPageau Join the conversation: Unofficial Facebook discussion group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1989208418065298/ The Symbolic World Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSymbolicWorld/ Social media links: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/TheSymbolicWorld Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/pageaujonathan Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jonathan.pageau

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0:00.0	Hello everybody. This is my first video since I got back from Europe and I had COVID and I've been in self-isolation.
0:09.0	I thought I would be making videos during my isolation, but it turns out my brain was so much in so much fog that it was just impossible to make videos.
0:19.0	And so I'm happy to be making videos again.
0:21.7	Hopefully my strength will hold up and I won't get too tired. So I wanted for the past
0:27.4	month or so, or I guess a few months, I've been making more videos on scripture. I've been
0:32.2	doing some interpretation of Christ's parables, of the sermon on the mount, and just trying to help people
0:41.5	see the pattern, the symbolic pattern in scripture. But what I wanted to do with you today
0:46.4	is to look at a short text in St. Ephraim the Syrians Hymns on Paradise. I told you guys
0:52.4	many times about this book. If you haven't read it and you're
0:55.4	watching my videos, you really need to read Senephrine's Hymns on Paradise. I'm going to read
1:00.9	three stanzas from the hymns and we're going to revisit some of the videos that I did and look
1:08.7	at another story of Christ and hopefully it'll help you see how it is that I did and look at another story of Christ, and hopefully it'll help you
1:12.4	see how it is that I draw all of this together, and why it is that I see the patterns that I see.
1:19.5	It's a lot of it is using St. Ephraim as a guide to interpret scripture. Of course, he's not
1:26.3	doing it arbitrarily. He himself, as the guide, is pulling together all these threads in scripture into very short and condensed stanzas.
1:36.3	And so it's sometimes difficult because it can take some time to unpack them.
1:41.3	But hopefully you'll follow me along and it'll give you a few secret keys
1:45.4	to the interpretation of Scripture.
1:58.0	This is Jonathan Peugeot. Welcome to the symbolic world.
2:12.1	So the stanza that I'm reading, I'm going to read three, are from page 78 of the St. Vladimir
2:20.8	Seminary edition of the Hymn's on Paradise, translated by Sebastian Brock with a great introduction.
2:26.6	So Sennephyr from starts. He says, with the eyes of my mind, I gazed upon paradise.
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