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Along with most early Christian interpreters of this parable, [6] some today continue to understand it as an allegory, whereby Jesus Christ is the bridegroom, [2] [5] echoing the Old Testament image of God as the bridegroom in Jeremiah 2:2 and similar passages, [2] and the virgins are the Christians. [7] The awaited event is the Second Coming ...
Jerome: " Christ is the Bridegroom and the Church the Bride. Of this spiritual union the Apostles were born; they cannot mourn so long as they see the Bridegroom in the chamber with the Bride. But when the nuptials are past, and the time of passion and resurrection is come, then shall the children of the Bridegroom fast.
An 1880 Baxter process illustration of Revelation 22:17 by Joseph Martin Kronheim. The bride of Christ, or the lamb's wife, [1] is a metaphor used in number of related verses in the Christian Bible, specifically the New Testament – in the Gospels, the Book of Revelation, the Epistles, with related verses in the Old Testament.
[k] [4] In his book 'The Bridegroom Was a Long Time in Coming, and They All Became Drowsy and Fell Asleep' (1985) he interpreted the year of the end varies, suggesting both 1988 and 2012. [l] However, in the same book, he interpreted 1988 as the year of the end while also claiming that it marks the point when the Bridegroom comes slowly. He ...
Thou cam’st, the Bridegroom of the bride, as drew the world to evening-tide; proceeding from a virgin shrine, the spotless victim all divine. At whose dread name, majestic now, all knees must bend, all hearts must bow; and things celestial Thee shall own, and things terrestrial, Lord alone. O Thou whose coming is with dread
Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race. His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof. The law of the L ORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the L ORD is sure, making wise the simple.
The Gospel tells a number of parables about the Second Coming, including the parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins. Later that evening (in parish practice) or early the following morning, the matins follows the special format known as the Bridegroom Service which is used the first three days of Holy Week.
The bridegroom, who was thought to symbolise Christ, was delayed, of which the men saw a parallel in their own situation. They attempted to explain why the "bridegroom" had tarried. The article also explored the concept of the day of atonement and what the authors called "our chronology of events".