>>16854526>Broski, the english interpretation is derived from AramaicIt comes from Greek manuscripts
>The bible isn’t meant to be interpreted literally.This is the cope Christians fall back in even when there is no reliable indication that a metaphor is being used. The earliest Christians interpreted it literally and they were closer to Christ and his teachings than you. They received a tradition of castration from Paul and Jesus. I checked the Greek and I think you should castrate yourself for the sake of the kingdom of heaven like Rabbi Jesus recommended. Turns out Paul and Jesus were just crazy manipulative cult leaders. (Who would have thought?) You only think it's metaphorical because you haven't considered that the people who said these things were simply fucking insane.
https://www.paulmcgrane.co.uk/blog/2018/1/22/christian-castration>In fact, it is becoming increasingly clear to some scholars that when Jesus spoke approvingly of voluntary eunuchs, he was speaking literally. The focus of society generally on LGBT issues in recent decades has led to a re-examination of those issues throughout history and a rediscovery of the fact that ritual religious castration was very common in the Mediterranean from the earliest times.>And whatever its origins, a number of Church Fathers took it literally: Valentinus, Julius Cassianus, Basilides, Leontios of Antiochia, Melito “the Eunuch”, Hilarion, Marcarius, and most famously, Origen are among the thousands that chose ritual castration as route to salvation. The cloisters of Egypt and Syria were centres of castration, and Coptic monasteries continued to perform the operation well into the Islamic period. 