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Heidegger's Bible Handbook: Mark: The Life and Martyrdom of Mark

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Updated: Jul 10, 2020

3. The manner of the life of Mark. Whether he was of the number of the seventy disciples? When, and with what sort of death, he died, is uncertain.



The manner of the life of Saint Mark, before he was a disciple of the Lord, is not known with certainty.That he was a Priest, and that he cut off his thumb, so that he might be useless for ministry,[1] some in Jerome have related.[2]After his conversion to Christ, in 1 Peter 5:13 he is called Peter’s υἱός/Son:by whom perhaps he was also converted, and to whom thereafter the ancients attach him as a companion.Whether he was of the number of the seventy disciples, whom Christ is said in Luke 10:1 to have taken to Himself, as Theophylact[3] and others think, is also uncertain.For thus Saint Peter would have called him Brother, rather than Son.Eusebius, Church History, book II, section 16, relates it as certain, that in Alexandria, Egypt he by the preaching of the Gospel first gathered a Church to Christ.That in the eighth year of Nero in that very place he died and was buried, Jerome mentions in his Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Catalogo, and that from that same time in Alexandria it was customary that the Presbyters set one over themselves, having been chosen out of their own number, whom they would call Bishop (whence, nevertheless, that Mark was the Bishop of Alexandria, the Episcopalians incorrectly contend), the same Jerome asserts in Epistle 85 to Evagrius.But Kirstenius’ most ancient Arabic Codex states that he came to Alexandria in the seventh year of the Reign of Claudius,[4] and that in the fourteenth year he was martyred in that very place:concerning which more fully a little afterwards.From the same Codex, where the word רמד, to incinerate, occurs, the same Kirstenius gathers that Saint Mark of Alexandria met his death on the second day, when he was most miserably dragged from the villages through the streets with a rope cast about his neck, set on a funeral pyre for the complete dissolution of the flesh, and reduced to ashes by the flames.But we also leave the question of Mark’s Martyrdom undecided, because it rests upon a doubtful and more recent account, as the most learned Blondel[5] well says, de Episcopis, page 7, until more certain things are discovered.

[1] See Leviticus 21:16-24. [2] Jerome’s authorship of the Prologi super Marcum is doubtful. [3] The Explanation by the Blessed Theophylact of the Holy Gospel of Matthew. [4] Circa 48 AD. [5] David Blondel (1591-1655) was a Huguenot minister, historian, and classicist. He served as Professor of Church History at Amsterdam (1649-1655). He is remembered for his critical stance with respect to the many forged and spurious documents coming out of antiquity.

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ronfrancis
ronfrancis
14 jul 2020

Good lesson, Rich pastorial and deeply reflective.

I did notice in the Luke 22 Pray parts that were very much like Our Lord's Prayer he taught. Never noticed that before....Ye not be led into temptation; addressing the Father and praying his will be done.


Also John Gill on Ps 16 mention of hell as you noted: ...though it seems best of all to interpret it of the grave, as the word is rendered in Gen 42:38;

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08 jul 2020

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08 jul 2020

Dr. Dilday's Special Introduction to the Gospel of Mark, "Remembering Our First Love"

https://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=8514865710

1) Introduction

2) Adoration of the Christ: Psalm 110

3) Why Mark? (Introduction to his Gospel)

a) Christ, our Beloved

b) The neglect of Mark

c) The abuse of Mark

4) Special Introduction to the Gospel of Mark

a) Historical testimony

i) Author

ii) Place

iii) Date

iv) Canonicity

b) Application: encouragement for presenting the gospel

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