{"id":15794,"date":"2025-08-31T08:51:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T12:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=15794"},"modified":"2025-08-24T08:53:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T12:53:01","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-august-31-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=15794","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for August 31"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis is the method of interpretation that we are to apply throughout the Bible. Why, for instance, in the second half of Lent are the Old Testament readings from Genesis dominated by the figure of Joseph? Why in Holy Week do we read from the book of Job? Because Joseph and Job are innocent sufferers, and as such they are types or foreshadowings of Jesus Christ, whose innocent suffering upon the Cross the Church is at the point of celebrating. It all ties up.\u201d<br \/>\n(Metropolitan Kallistos Ware \u00a0\u2018How to Read the Bible\u2019)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15795\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0667-2019_11_08-19_20_40-UTC-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0667-2019_11_08-19_20_40-UTC-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0667-2019_11_08-19_20_40-UTC-768x515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0667-2019_11_08-19_20_40-UTC-480x320.jpg 480w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0667-2019_11_08-19_20_40-UTC.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis is the method of interpretation that we are to apply throughout the Bible. Why, for instance, in the second half of Lent are the Old Testament readings from Genesis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orthodox-quotes","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15796,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15794\/revisions\/15796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}