by EzraLB » Thu Dec 08, 2016 7:47 pm
Teutonic wrote:I guess I'm wondering why it states that he went and bought the field rather than just taking the treasure? If the treasure is the kingdom of Heaven, the true and racial interpretation of Scripture, then what does the field represent?
While I think Bill's interpretation of this parable is valid, it doesn't directly address your question as to why the man didn't just take the treasure once he found it instead of buying the field first. Well, the owner of the field owns the field and anything under it, I assume. So in order to rightfully own the treasure he found, he'd have to buy the entire field. It's kind of like when you buy a piece of property, you must make sure you own the mineral rights also if that is important to you. If you find treasure on property that you don't own, that treasure is not yours even though you found it.
I agree with Bill that the field is the entire Bible, and the pearl, as I read it, is Christ. And we are to sell off all our worldly wealth to follow Him--concentrate all our wealth on that one Pearl. Great treasures are often found in the most inauspicious places--the greatest gold mines are often found beneath the desert floor, but that requires work and diligence to get at it, which is much like the treasure found in Scripture. And yes, the racial message of Scripture is one of the most precious of all treasures that can be found there--as is attested by how few of us ever find it.
I'm sure there's more to it, but that's a start...
"No Rothschild is English. No Baruch, Morgenthau, Cohen, Lehman, Warburg, Kuhn, Kahn, Schiff, Sieff or Solomon was ever born Anglo-Saxon. And it is for this filth that you fight. It is for this filth that you murdered your Empire. It is this filth that elects, selects, your politicians." -- Ezra Pound