Interpreting Mark 15:34--'eloi 'eloi lama sabachthani

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Go read Ezekiel. All of it. See what you're missing. Try that Son of Man, that Holy Spirit; see what the New Testament actually testifies.

And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man clothed with linen, which had the writer's inkhorn by his side;
And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.
And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity. (Ez. 9:3)

Have you seen depictions of the Judging Hall of the Egyptians?



To the right of the balance is god Thoth standing ready, with the scribe’s outfit in hand, to write down the result of the trial. Ezekiel is above describing a judgment of people alive who are to be marked accordingly (that is what the...LORD was supposed to have done in Sodom prior to burning everything and everybody up).
The judgment of the living was well remembered in the Near East but not so in the Greek traditions. Plato learned about it from the Egyptians but Ezekiel need not having been taught by the Egyptians.