-Og:
King of Bashan.
Contemporary
with Moses, about B.C.E.
1400.
Og's territory, embracing
60 cities.(Deuteronomy
3:4), was conquered by Moses
and the Israelites immediately after the conquest of Sihon,
king of the
Amorites.
Og the giant king of Bashan
descended from the Rephaim, the sons of Raphah,
a
race of giants who lived beyond the Jordan river.
The countryside of Bashan.(map).was
and still is a rich hilly district lying east of the Jordan and between
the mountains of Hermon on the north and those of Gilead and Ammon on the
south. The country takes its name from its soft and sandy soil. It is celebrated
in Scripture for its rich pasturage. Modern travelers describe the country
as still abounding with verdant and fertile meadows, valleys traversed
by refreshing streams, hills crowned with forests and pastures offering
an abundance to the flocks that wander through them.
The ancient Israelities
had their problems after coming out of 430 years of captivity
to Egypt. King Og attacked Israel and
king Sihon refused to allow the Israelites
to pass through his land when they were on the way to the land God promised
them.
Og should have been more
considerate.
He wasn't; not a good decision:.Numbers
21:33-35.
With the death of king Og,
the last giant had passed from the Earth:.Deuteronomy
3:11 "For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants.
Behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the
children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof and four cubits the
breadth of it, after the cubit of a
man."
Omri:.6th
king of.Israel.
He was previously a Philistine
general and captain of king Elah's
army. Omri succeeded Elah and reigned for 12 years, B.C.E.
930 to 918:.1Kings
16:16.
Omri was an evil king:.1Kings
16:25,26. Omri's son was the evil Ahab.
Beth-omri, 'the house' or
'city of Omri' is the name usually found on Assyrian inscriptions
for Samaria.
In the stele
of Mesha, the 'Moabite stone', which was erected in Moab about twenty or
thirty years after Omri's death. It is recorded that Omri oppressed Moab
till Mesha delivered the land:.2Kings
1:1;
3:4,5. It is written as."Omri,
king of Israel, oppressed Moab many days, for Chemosh
was angry with his land. His son succeeded him and he also said, I will
oppress Moab. Omri took the land of Medeba and occupied it in his day and
in the days of his son forty years.(actually
was 34 years)".
Omri resided at Tirzah:.1Kings
16:23-26.
1Kings
16:28 "So Omri slept with his fathers and was buried in Samaria and
Ahab his son reigned in his stead."
-Origen.(born
Oregenes Adamantius).185-254
A.D.
A Greek, born in Egypt who was a Christian
writer, teacher, mystic.and
philosopher
known for his exacting interpretations
of the Old
Testament which was then contained in hexapla.
His meticulous
work, known for its criticality,
was later condemned
as unorthodox.
"Origen taught in the city
of Alexandria, Egypt then settled at Caesarea.(a
seaport of Palestine).and
founded a school of literature, philosophy and theology. During the persecutions
of the Christians in 250 A.D. under Emperor Decius, Origen was imprisoned
and tortured. Released in 251, but weakened by injuries, he died about
254, probably in Tyre.
"Origen may well have been
the most accomplished biblical scholar of the early church. His accomplishments
as an exegete
and student of the text of the Old Testament were outstanding. He was a
voluminous writer whose works include letters, treatises in dogmatic and
practical theology, apologetics,
exegeses
and textual criticism. Contra Celsum, meaning, Against Celsus, is a closely
reasoned long work in apologetics refuting.arguments
advanced by the philosopher Celsus, an influential 2nd-century Platonist
of Alexandria and perhaps the first serious critic
of Christianity.
"Origen is regarded as the
father of the allegorical
method of scriptural interpretation. He taught the principle of the threefold
sense, corresponding to the threefold division of the person into body,
spirit and soul, which was then a common concept. He was a Platonist and
endeavored to combine Greek philosophy and the Christian religion. He developed
the idea of Christ as the Logos, or Incarnate.Word,
who is with the Father from eternity, but he taught also that the Son is
subordinate
to the Father in power and dignity. This latter doctrine and others, such
as that of the preexistence of the soul, were severely criticized by many
of Origen's contemporaries and by subsequent writers. Theories that were
developed from his doctrines became the subject of considerable theological
controversy during the Middle Ages."
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