Ephesians 1:1-4 Dateline Meter

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	Verse	Syllable	Cumulative	=AD
1	Παῦλος ἀπόστολος Χριστοῦ Ἰησοῦ	10	10
	διὰ θελήματος θεοῦ	8	18
	τοῖς ἁγίοις τοῖς οὖσιν [ἐν Ἐφέσῳ]	11	29
	καὶ πιστοῖς   ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ,	8	37
2	χάρις ὑμῖν καὶ εἰρήνη ἀπὸ θεοῦ πατρὸς ἡμῶν	15	52
	καὶ κυρίου Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ.	7	59
3	Εὐλογητὸς ὁ θεὸς καὶ πατὴρ	10	69	10
	τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ,	10	79	20
	ὁ εὐλογήσας ἡμᾶς	7	86	27
	ἐν πάσῃ εὐλογίᾳ πνευματικῇ	10	96	37
	ἐν τοῖς ἐπουρανίοις ἐν Χριστῷ,	10	106	47
4	καθὼς ἐξελέξατο ἡμᾶς	8	114	56
	ἐν αὐτῷ πρὸ καταβολῆς κόσμου	10	124	66
	εἶναι ἡμᾶς ἁγίους καὶ ἀμώμους	11	135	77
	κατενώπιον αὐτοῦ	7	142	84
	ἐν ἀγάπῃ,	4	146	88

                                                

 

 

This was a block letter opening at verse 3, with text (i.e., verses 1-2) inserted at the time of dissemination.  So perhaps  it was composed earlier than the date disseminated.  Since a dateline meter goes by the date written, the date of dissemination can be later.  Most of the NT letters we have, incorporated the date written as the date disseminated, but maybe not here.

 

Furthermore, interpolations of 'prisoner' head Chapters 3 and 4; Chapter 6 verses 19-22 interpolations, are about Paul's condition;  so they could have been inserted just before dissemination.  Note the text: if you leave those interpolations out, the text still flows.  Also notice that, unlike all other greetings, the one here has no sevening;  the mss show that 'at Ephesus' was an insertion, similar to how we do mass mailing, today.  Later mss have it within the text; earlier ones, have it in the margin.

 

Do we also have texts without the insertions claimed?  A 'no' answer won't preclude the above claims, since perhaps no copies of merely the 'block letter', survive.  A 'yes' answer will support the claims, though not conclusively.  The answer is not a strong 'yes', as the better manuscripts lacking Eph3:1 and 4:1 verses often lack beginning verses.  ('Lesser' Sinaiticus, Vaticanus, Alexandrinus and some later copies maybe based on them.)  Same, for 6:19-22. Even if no copying error,  lacunae won't avow a pre-distribution copy of Ephesians. Yet it's obvious the text was boilerplated prior to dissemination, so we need a composition date:

 

I Paul write you in the

o         10^th year after I began writing Canon (4164.5 -9 = 4155.25 aka ad 49 = Galatians), which was the

o         20^th year after the Lord died (4155.25 -19 = 4136);  so now I write

o         27 years after the year after He died (4164.5 -27 = 4136.5+1), which was

o         (41)37, rounded on the Adamic calendar (really .5+4136.5 = 4136 vernal = Passover 4136).  Originally, He was to die

o         (41)47, again rounded on the Adamic calendar (really .5+4146.5 = 4146 vernal = Passover 4146).  So had He been born when scheduled originally, He'd be in his 57^th year, age

o         56. (he 'games' 4107+57, on or just after the Lord's Birthday, given the +1's, since even His woulda-been age when Paul writes, is 2 years older, 4164.5 -4106 = 58 = our ad.  The Lord is maybe age 60.999 or more likely, 61 (4164.5-4103); but Paul wants to 'tag' Mary's terminus and continue the timeline, showing Plan of God includes Gentiles.  She picked up where Daniel left off, even as Daniel picked up where Moses left off (writing 2706 covering all time but also the Time of Judges for next 350 years, ending with 1050 on the clock to Messiah's scheduled birth 2000 years after Jacob = 4106. Daniel picked up at 1050 on the clock;  his timeline took you to 3868, and Mary picks up 73 years later, mimicking Daniel's 2^nd dateline; so she picks up at 1^st Chanukah, 3868 +73 = 3941 end.  Hence this date handling in Paul, is deliberate.)

 

Now Paul  goes prophetic.  So 10 years from now, the Tribulation might begin, when His shoulda-been age equals His actual age at death, which will be

o         66; maybe ending, on the 1040^th anniversary of David's Death (3143+1040) or the 50^th anniversary of the Lord's Ministry (4133+50), when He should have been (4183-4106)

o         77.

 

Aha.  So that's the same dateline formula (for 66 and 77) that Paul used in 2 Cor (4183 as 1040^th anniv. David's Death, 40^th anniv. of when the Lord should have died, and 50^th anniv. of His going into the wilderness, play on 15^th year of Tiberius, Luke 3); yet also, tagging his own Romans dateline use of 77 for David; but this time, punning David's birth and death.

 

[David born 400 years after the Exodus, which puns the total years of Israel until the future Temple Down in ad 70, 'our' 1440 bc to ad 70 +7 in case Trib actually begins in 70 hence 77 endpoint: then, at the pun of David's death age, it will be what the Lord also should have been on the original Abrahamic schedule absent David's being crowned late.  The pun goes on: 4183-3096 when he was crowned at Hebron, is 1087, but the Lord died 10 years early, hence 1077. Paul makes a lot of 1077 plays in Ephesians 1, and I've not figured them all out.  I've started to guess at them (on page 134 of the pdf copy of Ephesians1REPARSED), and am not done yet.

 

Paul puns the syllable = years First David's Birth to Last David's Death in Isaiah 53's Hebrew, including its two ellipses, as follows.  4172.75 – 4106 = age 67 hence 68^th year.  4172.75 +.25 = 4173 -3096, which was the 1050^th 'birthday' of Abraham's maturation, when David was crowned at Hebron.  So difference is 4173 -3096 = 1077.  Heh.  Paul makes a whole chain of 1077s in Ephesians' meter (click on the link 'Year 1077s' at bottom of the Title page, since the htm version isn't aligned).  I didn't know why.  Now for the first time, maybe I can figure them out.  Here's why the 1077 matters.  Isaiah 53 is really 1078 syllables, for the number of years between first David's birth and last David's Scheduled Death = 154x7.  Isaiah mapped two ellipses to get to that total, since Isaiah 53 in Hebrew (not English) is 462 syllables.  So you have to add them: a) 252 ellipsis after Isaiah 52:15, gap between Isaiah counseling Hezekiah beginning in 714 bc and David's death back in 963 bc per 1Kings 6:1, which 'scholars' perpetually misread, so they don't know Bible there flatly says David died at age 77.  Daniel 9's meter addressed the 252 and so does John in his Revelation dateline.  Next, the other ellipsis in Isaiah 53, b) straddles close of Malachi at end of Isa53:10 = 397 bc = end of last pre-Christ historical 70-year voting period (row 149 in this link), which Matthew tags as his first dateline, writing 427 years later.  Ellipsis is 364 years Temple Standing by the time it dies (last dateline meter in Revelation too), 126 years short of its allotment, basis for the 'seven weeks', Tribulation 'week' and the ensconced 70 inside '62 weeks' (=364+70), in Dan9:26 (reimburse owed 1^st Temple Time).]

 

So now we have two datelines, as well.  Even omitting the above dateline style from Romans, but including the same 77 usage in the Romans dateline, we have a 'time GPS' on both sevened datelines, for his composition:

 

o         56, same as Luke's, meaning

o         28 years after the Lord died, and

o         1+28 years forward to the Trib; or just

o         +28 to the 1050^th anniversary of David's death. (4164.5+28=4192.5 rounded to 4193 -1050 = 3143 when David died, since 1000 years after that was the shortened Limit On Time, versus the originally-scheduled Abrahamic 'credit' limit of 4146.)

o         77 years before Paul writes, Herod actually started 2^nd Temple reconstruction; apt, given Ephesians Chapters 1-2 re 'building', 'walls', height width depth breadth.  Aha. Now I realize why 1 Peter uses the same dateline formula for his '84', writing 10 years later.  Peter's dateline marks end of initial inner Temple completion.

o         77^th year after Paul writes, is the end of Zecharias' prophecy which runs (including vernal), 42 years' post originally-scheduled Millennium. (I tracked the Zecharias ending, here.)

o         77^/2 years before Paul writes, the Lord should have turned 20 (4164.5 -38.5 = 4126 -4106 = ad 20), but was age 23: Mary benchmarked it (Luke 1:54, I don't know why).

o         77^/2 years after Paul writes, is the Lord's 100^th birthday.