What’s the difference between Jerusalem and the City of David?
Orthodox Sunday of the Blind Man (during the Pascha season):
https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2016/06/05/40-sunday-of-the-blind-man
At the end of Chapter 8 in Gospel of Saint John, the Savior was disputing with the Pharisees in the Temple during the Feast of Tabernacles. He told them, “Your father Abraham was glad that he should see my day; and he saw it and rejoiced” (John 8:56). The Jews said that Jesus was not even fifty years old, so how could He claim to have seen Abraham? The Lord replied, “Before Abraham was, I am.” I am, of course, is the name that God revealed to Moses in the Burning Bush. When the Jews picked up stones to throw at Him, He hid Himself and went out of the Temple.
We read in SaInt John’s Gospel (9:1-38): “As He passed by, he saw a man who was blind from birth.” It might appear that Jesus was on His way to something or someone else, but in his Commentary on the Gospel of Saint John, the ever-memorable Archbishop Dmitri of Dallas, quotes from Homily LVI of Saint John Chrysostom: “that on going out of the Temple, He proceeded intentionally to the work, is clear from this: it was He who saw the blind man, and not the blind man who came to Him....”
Christ’s disciples asked Him who had sinned, the blind man or his parents that he had been born blind. Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but that the works of God might be manifested in him” (John 9:3). It was thought that a person who had some affliction must have sinned (or his parents did) to deserve such punishment. In the Book of Exodus (20:5), God said that he would visit “the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.” This, however, applied to the sin of idolatry, if the children emulated their parents’ behavior.
The blind man was not born blind just so the miracle could be performed, but seeing the man in such a condition, the Lord decided to use him in a way that would manifest God’s glory. He Who is the Light of the world healed the blind man and enlightened him. Giving sight to the blind was one of the signs which would identify the Messiah (Matthew 11:4-6).
The Lord made clay when He spat on the ground, and placed it in the man’s empty eye sockets and sent him to the pool of Siloam to wash. Most versions of the Gospels translate the word επεθηκεν as “anointed,” but it can also mean “to spread on,” or “to smear.” Siloam means “sent,” and in Saint John’s Gospel Christ says about forty times that He Himself had been sent by the Father.”
This manner of healing reminds us of the way God created man by fashioning him from the dust of the earth. In the Old Testament God created man from the dust of the earth, now Christ, the same God, fashions eyes from the clay and places them in the blind man’s empty sockets.
Incomprehensible. If all angle are 90+ degrees it must have 5 or more sides. A trapezoid MUST have at least one angle less than 90 degrees.
If this is really the pool of Siloam, it’s less than 2000 years since it was last seen—since Jesus’ miracle was less than 2000 years ago, and the pool may have continued to be used until the Roman destruction of Jerusalem in the year 70.
Blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
Brings to mind Siloam Springs, Arkansas. Once upon a time some of the loveliest day lilies were sold there.
The Pool of Siloam
https://www.bibleplaces.com/poolofsiloam/
Pool of Siloam
https://www.holylandsite.com/pool-of-siloam
Pool of Siloam
https://madainproject.com/pool_of_siloam
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Jerusalem area map - 1858
https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/15506394
Jerusalem area map - 1865 - including City of David
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/1865_Ordnance_Survey_of_Jerusalem_Old_City_full_map.jpg
Jerusalem area - time of Jesus (scroll down to bottom)
https://www.conformingtojesus.com/charts-maps/en/jerusalem_in_jesus_time_map.htm
Jerusalem area - time of Nehemiah - including City of David
https://www.conformingtojesus.com/charts-maps/en/jerusalem_in_nehemiah_time_map.htm
Probably the most accurate - City of David
Jerusalem area - time of David and Solomon - City of David
https://www.seektheoldpaths.com/Maps/056.jpg
