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Tag: commentary on the Apocrypha

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  • Tobit- Mysticism and New Age Religion

    Tobit- Mysticism and New Age Religion

    Tobit 6:1b-9 Tobias and the angel, Raphael, depart for Media. On the way, they stop to camp and Tobias accidentally catches a large fish. Raphael instructs Tobias to clean the fish, keeping the heart, gull, and liver and throwing away the intestines. This was because the heart, gull, and liver were seen as valuable for…

  • Tobit- Religious Self-Betterment vs. The Gospel

    Tobit- Religious Self-Betterment vs. The Gospel

    Tobit 3:1-6 Unlike Job, who rebuked his wife for accusing God of being unjust, Tobit wept because of his wife’s words and because she seemed to be correct about God’s injustice. The story identifies Tobit as walking in the ways of truth and righteousness all the days of his life (1:3). Yet, he was now…

  • Introduction to Tobit, the apocryphal work

    Introduction to Tobit, the apocryphal work

    Tobit can be found in the Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, and Slavonic (Russian Orthodox) Bibles. Neither the Jews, Protestants, nor Anglicans recognize Tobit as canonical. The book gets its name from the main character, Tobit. The oldest versions of this book have survived in the Greek,  Old Latin, and Jerome’s Vulgate (see the introduction to…