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The Woman at the Well and Christian Division
It is interesting to ponder…
The woman at the well was a Samaritan, partially separated from the orthodox People of Old. Christ accurately told her that she had five husbands formerly, then currently, only a man in residence, not a legitimate marriage.
It is interesting to consider an possible apocalyptic meaning to this passage. And how? Well, in the NEW Covenant, there are also those separated, at least partially, from the fully true, orthodox religion.
The ultimate spouse on earth that the fullness of God’s children have is Peter, who espouses himself as husband, in the place of Christ, to the universal faithful. Other than him, there are four other great husbands of their own Churches, but unfortunately 1000 years ago, they separated from Peter through Schism. And yet they remained legitimate husbands, since they are still valid successors of the Apostles they succeed, the Sees they take up. For every legitimate man of God is a husband to his community that he oversees. Peter’s community is the whole Church. A bishop’s community extends over his whole reign. A priest’s community is his whole parish.
But unfortunately, for the heretics, the last great form of separation from Rome, there are in fact no legitimate husbands, since no heretical community has valid Holy Orders. Therefore, whereas many a Protestant pastor is pleasing to God according to their conscience, ministering to their respective communities, they are not husbands in the proper sense, but only seem to be.
But then, how prophetic, isn’t it, that what was true literally of the woman at the well relative to the People of Old somehow is fulfilled in the New Covenant by the Christians separated from the True New People of God.
For initially, the Christians all had one spouse on earth, Peter, for the first thousand years. Then, as the Church crossed the first millennium of her existence, the whole Eastern Christians were severed and gained four lesser husbands, the four great Apostolic Sees that went into Schism.
Later, the whole great disruption in the West came, where whole parts of nations went out from Mother Church, and left all the husbands, rejecting all Apostolic Succession. These Christians, then, unfortunately, only lived with men that, while meaning well, were only pseudo-husbands.
It is interesting to ponder…
The woman at the well was a Samaritan, partially separated from the orthodox People of Old. Christ accurately told her that she had five husbands formerly, then currently, only a man in residence, not a legitimate marriage.
It is interesting to consider an possible apocalyptic meaning to this passage. And how? Well, in the NEW Covenant, there are also those separated, at least partially, from the fully true, orthodox religion.
The ultimate spouse on earth that the fullness of God’s children have is Peter, who espouses himself as husband, in the place of Christ, to the universal faithful. Other than him, there are four other great husbands of their own Churches, but unfortunately 1000 years ago, they separated from Peter through Schism. And yet they remained legitimate husbands, since they are still valid successors of the Apostles they succeed, the Sees they take up. For every legitimate man of God is a husband to his community that he oversees. Peter’s community is the whole Church. A bishop’s community extends over his whole reign. A priest’s community is his whole parish.
But unfortunately, for the heretics, the last great form of separation from Rome, there are in fact no legitimate husbands, since no heretical community has valid Holy Orders. Therefore, whereas many a Protestant pastor is pleasing to God according to their conscience, ministering to their respective communities, they are not husbands in the proper sense, but only seem to be.
But then, how prophetic, isn’t it, that what was true literally of the woman at the well relative to the People of Old somehow is fulfilled in the New Covenant by the Christians separated from the True New People of God.
For initially, the Christians all had one spouse on earth, Peter, for the first thousand years. Then, as the Church crossed the first millennium of her existence, the whole Eastern Christians were severed and gained four lesser husbands, the four great Apostolic Sees that went into Schism.
Later, the whole great disruption in the West came, where whole parts of nations went out from Mother Church, and left all the husbands, rejecting all Apostolic Succession. These Christians, then, unfortunately, only lived with men that, while meaning well, were only pseudo-husbands.