 | William Carl Placher - 1992 - 220 pagini
...had promised, and gave substance to the shadows" (Institutes 2.9 .4). After all, Christ proclaimed, "Do not think that I have come to abolish the law...prophets; I have come not to abolish but to fulfill" (Matt. 5:17). Our Jewish partners in conversation will be justifiably suspicious if we try to claim... | |
 | George M. Smiga - 1992 - 224 pagini
...Note how they seem to state rather clearly that no part of the Mosaic law can be set aside. (5:17) Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or...prophets; I have come not to abolish but to fulfill. (18) For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not one letter, not one stroke of a letter,... | |
 | Raymond F. Collins - 1992 - 412 pagini
...antitheses, "Do not think that I have come to abolish the law. ... I have come not to abolish. . . . until heaven and earth pass away, not one letter,...not one stroke of a letter, will pass from the law." When this is taken into account, it is unlikely that Matthew's Jesus would have relegated passages... | |
 | Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh - 1993 - 292 pagini
...his position unequivocally clear - a position that Paul was subsequently to betray: Do not imagine that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I have come not to abolish but to complete them. I tell you solemnly . . . not one dot, not one little stroke, shall disappear from the... | |
 | Joel B. Green, Scot McKnight, I. Howard Marshall - 1992 - 968 pagini
...Fulfillment of the Law. The best-known statement of Jesus with respect to the Law comes in Matthew 5:17: "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the prophets: I have not come to abolish, but to fulfill them." To understand this claim, we must consider its following... | |
 | Walter C. Kaiser, Jr. - 1991 - 364 pagini
...certainly mistaken. First, they must revise the estimate of Jesus himself who declared the reverse: "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them" (Matt. 5:17). Second, there are scores of ethical instructions... | |
 | John H. Leith - 1993 - 376 pagini
...which it is made complete, to fear Him and to love Him. Emil Brunner, The Divine Imperative, 132-133 Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or...will pass from the law until all is accomplished. Matthew 5:17-18 The law is God's gracious intention for the world and for human life.1 It is not some... | |
 | Douglas John Hall - 1996 - 588 pagini
...Jesus does not minimize the stringency of the law of Moses; on the contrary, he increases its demand: "Do not think that I have come to abolish the law...tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not one iota, not one stroke of a letter, will pass from the law until all is accomplished." (Matt. 5:17-18).... | |
 | Frederick Houk Borsch - 1999 - 228 pagini
...citizenship. But in all that teaching there was nothing particularly new. Matthew records Jesus as saying, "Do not think that I have come to abolish the law...prophets; I have come not to abolish but to fulfill" (Matt. 5:17). Yet Jesus did teach about the law in a new way. He used it to lay bare the sickness of... | |
 | James Dixon Douglas - 1993 - 938 pagini
...have come not to abolish bul to lull ill "For truly I lell you, until heaven and earth pass away, nol claim ourselves; we proclaim Jesus Christ as Lord...ourselves as your slaves for Jesus' sake. 6For it is the breaks4' one of the least of these commandments, and teaches others to do the same, will be called... | |
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Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. 
