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all the congregation
Topic Started: Jun 15 2011, 04:46 AM (326 Views)
MarkStaneart
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And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
(Numbers 14:1)

In the Greek Septuigent, “the whole synagogue” lifted up their voice and wept that night. This would become known as the saddest day in Israel’s history. Tradition places this day on the 9th of the month of Av. It would be on this same date that both the first and second Temples are destroyed. On this date, the Jewish people were carried away into Babylon. This date commemorates the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70. And many atrocities against the Hebrew nation has occurred on the 9th of Av. When the Oslo Accord was signed on the 9th of Av, one member of the Knesset remarked, “Can anything good come on this day?”

The usage of the term "synagogue" is important. Particularly since the diaspora (or the scattering of the Jewish people across the nations), the synagogue became culturally understood as the nation of Israel, pocketed all over the world. Since the synagogue became known as the local gathering place, the broader term used in Jewish thought would become the ekklesia: the word now most often translated in the Bible as "the Church." Since, in Messiah's day, the term "ekklesia" was common to be understood in this manner, His usage of the term, in Matthew 16:18 and 18:17 would have been understood in this context: not that He would build a new and distinctively definable population from His own name; but as the King of Israel; would establish His empire of Israel regardless of where they might happen to physically be located.
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