The only queen mother not listed are those of King Jehoram, who married wicked Athaliah, daughter of Ahab and Jezebel of Israel King Ahaz and King Asa. In Sacred Scripture the mother of the Davidic king is listed along with her son in the books of 1 & 2 Kings and 1 & 2 Chronicles when he assumes the throne. The Hebrew word gebirah is found 15 times in the Old Testament and can be translated as "Queen Mother," or "Great Lady". She was the most important and influential woman in the royal court and the king's chief councilor. 'The Gebirah, the Queen Mother of the Kingdom of Judah, was an official position held by the mother of the Davidic kings. Mary relied on God's grace, but chose not to sin by the influence of His grace. David relied on God's grace, but chose to sin. Mary was by virtue of being the Mother of God. David wasn't immaculately conceived preserved free from the stain of original sin and all personal sins by virtue of being the King of Israel. We all should love God and be people after His own heart, but by doing so that doesn't make us types of David in the economy of salvation.ģ. Mary is a type of Queen Mother (Gebirah) in the kingdom of heaven, whereas Jesus is a type of the Davidic king.Ģ. The important thing is that she is the mother of Jesus who has inherited the throne of his regal ancestor. Mary and David do stand at each end of the royal lineage, but this is purely incidental with respect to Mary. Being a descendant of David doesn't make Mary a type of David. None of the criteria above form any Biblical typology between the two in the proper sense of the term.ġ. Typology is the method we use to understand the historical and theological relationships between people and events recorded in Sacred Scripture. 'In him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily' (Col. The same can be said for Jesus' body which resembled a form of the Ark, according to the same Church Father. Mary can be designated as the new Ark of the Covenant without necessarily being made of acacia wood and ornamented with gold, though these natural substances symbolize her "exemption from putridity and corruption" (cf. In Biblical typology, the similarities between two subjects don't have to be completely identical. Do you think that by drawing a parallel between the two, we risk conjecturing Jesus committed mortal sins? I should think not. Certainly, you see Jesus as David's anti-type. 'Him, who knew no sin, he hath made sin for us, that we might be made the justice of God in him' (2 Cor. The NT makes it clear that Jesus was without sin. In the same way as we draw a parallel between Mary and Sarah, we can safely typify Jesus with David in spite of the latter's sinfulness. Mary was more blessed for her faith than she was in birthing and nurturing Jesus. And Jesus alluded to the Annunciation when he told the woman in the crowd, "Blessed are they who hear the word of God and keep it" (Lk. Elizabeth, on the other hand, praised Mary for having believed in the word of the Lord (Lk. Zechariah doubted, and so God struck him mute (Lk. But we have no reason to conjecture that Mary demonstrated a lack of faith simply by reading the Gospels. These exist extrinsically of ourselves in the objects of the intellect. People can draw conjectures, but not create implications.
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