![]() The guardian of the Vishnu Kovil of Vadamarachchi in the Northern tip of Jaffna is a cousin of my friend. “…around 1936, a good friend of mine in Jaffna brought to me a precious object, very secretly. Giving a speech at the ceremonial presentation of the Vallipuram inscription to the Department of Archaeology, Venerable Professor Walpola Rahula explained the details of its discovery thus: From here was discovered an artefact of unlikely hybridity: a golden inscription in Tamil-Prakrit attesting to Vallipuram as a territory under a Buddhist King. Image courtesy .Īt the very crown of the Sri Lankan map, in the site of the costive incursion on LTTE territory known as the Vadamarachchi Operation, lies a small village called Vallipuram. The letters are of the ancient language of Tamil-Prakrit. Though this law may seem like a precaution rather than the primary tool for archaeology, accidental discoveries by laymen have elongated the span of our civilisation and interposed major junctions among dynasties who were thought to be unrelated. Section 14 of the Ordinance urges anyone making the discovery to speedily surrender the object to the nearest police officer. According to Section 2(1), no such antiquity would become the property of any person “by reason only of its being discovered in or upon any land in the ownership of any person”. 9 of 1940) governs the legal status of all antiquities within the territory of Sri Lanka, and it deems every ancient monument or antiquity to be the absolute property of the State. The average treasure hunter, too, will find his key to everlasting life, somewhere just beyond the wholesale trade of humanity.īut the average citizen, should they make an archaeological discovery of any worth, is likely to encounter a much paltrier by-product of antiquity, a buzzkill called the Antiquities Ordinance. The professional archaeologist can have the abstract glory of preserving human knowledge. ![]() When Scripture speaks of submission between any two persons, such as within a marriage (Ephesians 5:22–24 Titus 2:9 3:1 Hebrews 13:17), it allows no condescension from one to the other.The average citizen is too powerless to make history in any way but by accident. ![]() Jesus is God incarnate (John 1:1, 14)-He is literally the divine Creator and Master of the very parents to whom He submits. This remark also helps to clarify that submission in no sense implies inferiority. When His family arrived and wanted Him to leave, He did so, as part of a pattern of godly obedience (Exodus 20:12). His remaining in the temple wasn't an act of rebellion. Rather, it seems Luke is clarifying that Jesus' attitude continued to be submissive. His remark does not suggest that Jesus was, only now, after the incident in the temple, being submissive to His parents. Luke's comment here about Jesus' submission resolves several interesting debates about the Bible and Jesus' early life. Though she does not understand, at first (Luke 2:50), she remains open to the work of God in her life (Luke 1:38). ![]() This is the same way she reacted when shepherds arrived to see the newborn Jesus (Luke 2:19). That she "treasures" what is happening implies that she deliberately chooses to remember it-holding it in her mind as something worth maintaining. In response to this, Mary once again is said to pay special attention. Though Mary is upset that He "mistreated" her (Luke 2:48), He reassures her that the temple is the only place she should have expected Him to be. One such incident is her frustration when a twelve-year-old Jesus is accidentally left behind in Jerusalem, only to be found three days later in the temple (Luke 2:41–47). Like anyone else, she would have had moments of doubt, confusion, or misunderstanding. Mary does not understand everything which happens to her with perfect knowledge. ![]()
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