"Ancient" Syriac bible found in Cyprus

[Moses]

"Ancient" Syriac bible found in Cyprus


http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090206/lf_nm_life/us_cyprus_bible;_ylt=Ai3MPWmdn.8ySHF7Kla6.CQDW7oF


NICOSIA (Reuters Life!) – Authorities in northern Cyprus believe they have found an ancient version of the Bible written in Syriac, a dialect of the native language of Jesus.
The manuscript was found in a police raid on suspected antiquity smugglers. Turkish Cypriot police testified in a court hearing they believe the manuscript could be about 2,000 years old.
The manuscript carries excerpts of the Bible written in gold lettering on vellum and loosely strung together, photos provided to Reuters showed. One page carries a drawing of a tree, and another eight lines of Syriac script.

[turanclancath]

very interesting moses .
What kind of 3 it is this 7 branched 3 ?

Turanclancath

[Moses]

Very good question.

The first things that gets in to my mind is the 7 churches.

[turanclancath]

http://www.scribd.com/doc/522713/The-Herbal-Menorah

After long days of Googling  7 branched trees in bible
i found to my great surprise this   the origin of the menorah is a 7 branched almond tree.
Could it be a stilysed Menorah ?
As I understood it was the Symbol off ancient Israel par exellence  also in the times of Jesus .
just an idy i dont know for sure ?

[Moses]

God point.
When we read revelations of St John we read about the Menorah - lamp, the 7 candle sticks that are the 7 churches.



Why was the church the wild olive tree grafted into the olive tree which is Israel?

If the root is holy, so are the branches.

Rom 11

And if the firstfruit is holy, so is the lump: and if the root is holy, so are the branches.

But if some of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive, wast grafted in among them, and didst become partaker with them of the root of the fatness of the olive tree;
18 glory not over the branches: but if thou gloriest, it is not thou that bearest the root, but the root thee.

19 Thou wilt say then, Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.
20 Well; by their unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by thy faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
21 for if God spared not the natural branches, neither will he spare thee.

God's goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.

And they also, if they continue not in their unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again. 24For if thou wast cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and wast grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree; how much more shall these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?

Root is YHWH God of Israel and according to christians Jesus.

So we can now clearly understand that the message of the tree is PAUL teaching us in Rom 11.

The remaining 7 branches are churches that are now bringing forward good fruit.

Romans 11

1I say then, Did God cast off his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. 2God did not cast off his people which he foreknew. Or know ye not what the scripture saith of Elijah? how he pleadeth with God against Israel: 3Lord, they have killed thy prophets, they have digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life. 4But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have left for myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal. 5Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace. 6But if it is by grace, it is no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. 7What then? that which Israel seeketh for, that he obtained not; but the election obtained it, and the rest were hardened: 8according as it is written, God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, unto this very day. 9And David saith,

[Moses]

 This is why in my answer I mentioned the 7 churches.