[CS-FSLUG] TH The kingdom of Heaven

[Robert W.]

On 07/22/2004 07:17:15 AM, Ed Hurst wrote:
> Robert W. wrote:
>>> I was under the impression grammatically Jesus was saying, "This   
>>> Kingdom of which I speak is the sort of thing you find inside   
>>> yourself, if you find it at all."
>> 
>> [snip]
>> 
>> I was always under the impression that many Jews of Jesus' time   
>> expected Messiah to be an earthly king. A deliverer who would drive  
>> out  the invaders and establish a physical kingdom in their here and  
>> now.  Could Jesus have been dispelling that perception of Messiah?  
>> Entrance  into heaven's realm isn't by crossing a physical border.  
>> It comes from  a change in who we are (our heart).
> 
> Indeed, the much ingnored "Messianic Expectations". I was a student  
> of an aged ThD whose thesis was one of the better summations of that  
> material. Jesus worked awfully hard to beat back that bunch of  
> nonsense. That and the perversions of the Alexandrian school of  
> Pharisaism.

What is "the Alexandrian schoold of Pharisaism"?  What kind of beliefs  
did they hold?  I wasn't able to find anything searching the Web.  Or  
more to the point, I wasn't able to find anything I understood  :)

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Robert W.
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Who of you by worrying can add a single
hour to his life? -- Matthew 6:27