Wise Men from the East

Young Heretics

Spencer Klavan

Society & Culture, Education

4.9 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

It's (still) Christmas!! On the feast of St. Stephen's Day (AKA Boxing Day), we gather around the cozy fire with our egg nogg and our gifts to talk about...martyrdom? Here's one extra Christmas special on the full twelve days of the holiday and the connections between Christmas morning, the first Christian martyr, and the final festival of Epiphany, when wise men came from the east to seal Jesus as the Messiah, not just for the Jews, but for the whole world.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Young Heretics. Happy St Stephen's Day. I hope you're all curled up around the fire with an eggnog or a whiskey or something special.
0:12.0	Let's have a cozy Christmas chat about martyrdom.
0:21.1	Okay, how's that for a shot in the arm after your Christmas food coma?
0:26.5	I don't know if everybody realizes today is the Feast of St Stephen, December 26th,
0:32.2	Boxing Day, and by the way it is still Christmas.
0:36.0	It will be Christmas for another 11 days.
0:38.8	Doesn't end until Epiphany, which is the day when we celebrate the coming of the magi, to bow down and to give gifts
0:48.1	to Jesus as the king who was foretold, which is actually what we're going to get to talking about today, the whole 12 days of Christmas,
0:57.0	starting with the birth of Jesus, but ending up with the arrival, the adoration of the Magi, the wise men from the east, and what sort of
1:06.8	symbolical allegorical significance we might give to that story.
1:12.0	Because kind of our theme theme this whole year, this whole Christmas season.
1:16.7	I've been talking a lot about biblical hermeneutics, that is the interpretation of the Bible, and especially about allegorical readings and why allegorical
1:27.5	readings are so important for the Christian Church from the very beginning of the Christian Church. If you go back a couple
1:34.3	episodes and listen to our show about the allegorical reading of the road to
1:40.1	Emmaus and how Jesus kind of opens up the scripture for the disciples
1:45.4	and the apostles.
1:47.2	I talked there about the fact that unless you have a concept
1:51.2	of the allegorical, unless you can read allegory and metaphor into even the events of history.
2:00.0	You're not really going to make sense, heads or tails, out of the resurrection, or be able even to recognize
2:05.8	the resurrection for what it is. Because the whole point of Jesus coming back to life is not just that one dude one time walked out of the grave,
2:17.2	but that that act stands in for a whole set of cosmic claims about the world and this is why unless you believe in
2:27.6	significance to history you can't really understand scripture because scripture is
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