In the same way that the bible ceased to be updated or added to after the addition of the New Testament, much of Leninist journalism assumes a repetitive cycle rather than new original, and more advanced content.  Commentary on the Bible, however, continued for many centuries afterwards, with such commentary taking the lead position in unifying the religion through fractious disputes.  The new Leninist journalism must combine the traditional principles elaborated by Lenin, combined with an active, not a passive, approach to encouraging discussion and high-level commentary.  Such commentary will serve to unite and bring forward the new generation of leading revolutionaries.

Commentary brought new ideas about the bible to the dispersed communities of ancient Israel.  When the bible was studied for the first time in the academies of Babylon, their commentaries, which arose in part from translations, were delivered to the exiled giving them new life.  They made nationhood, today’s equivalent of internationalism, possible, through their two-sided nature.  One, through intellectual advancement, a higher, more complex, and more detailed form of literature, myth as early science, rituals as early labratories, and history; and two, through distributions to various centers of learning throughout the then-hard-to-surmount distances of the geographical region.  (Myths and rituals have also been interpreted in other ways giving them lasting relevance, though to assert that they contained the seeds of future science does not inherently contradict these other interpretations.)

Jonathan ben Uzziel, student of one of the first known Biblical commentators, Hillel, wrote during the Roman occupation of Palestine.  An advance in social control, was poison and its attendant medicine, and the regulation of conversation about poison.  While in most translations, this is removed, in the Targum of Palestine on Genesis chapter 3, we read:

The snake: “Dying you will not die; for every artificer hateth the son of his art…”

God: “and thy skin thou shalt cast away once in seven years; and the poison of death shall be in thy mouth.”

“…It shall be when the sons of the woman keep the commandments of the law, they will be prepared to smite thee upon thy head; but when they forsake the commandments of the law, thou wilt be ready to wound them in their heel. Nevertheless for them there shall be a medicine, but for thee there will be no medicine.”  -Jonathan ben Uzziel (?) from The Targum of Palestine, Genesis ch. 3

(Idea for Book:  History of Languages and Translations Through Original Documents.  A sentance in every known language, every known alphabet, a few major documents, in their original and their most widely read translations.)

Compare this to the bible passages in question, and you will see that what has been left out can now be seen.  What seems to have been impermisible or unwise to state becomes vital commentary, an important part of the conversation of the intellectual community.  It is seen that the snake will bite, not at any opportunity, but when the commandments, or the social order, are forsaken.  It is also seen that for the community there will be medicine, but for the snake there will be none.  This is but one example of the bible stepping back from overt control, but the community of biblical scholars at the center of the exiled nation more directly asserting their power in order to save and reorganize their people to return them to the path of enlightened self rule.

From the newly discovered. first Latin commentary on the new testament: Fortunatianus Aquileiensis, Commentary on the Gospels.

“But the Law only represented the character of truth: [145] then, when the time had come, the former representation vanished, and truth stood fixed in its place.”

“For whenever there is a time of persecution, everyone attacks the Church in order to destroy it. But when faith is present, the house (meaning a person themselves) which is founded on the rock (plainly on Christ) cannot be torn from its foundation by any force. For when someone is killed for the name of Christ, [1070] then they stick even tighter, fixed more firmly to the foundations of rock.”