Matthew : a commentary on his handbook for a mixed church under persecution /
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| Author / Creator: | Gundry, Robert H. (Robert Horton), 1932- |
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Imprint: | Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans, 1994. |
| Description: | xlii, 685 pages ; 23 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13215678 |
Table of Contents:
- Continued 2 : The Gathering of the Pharisees against the Messiah in the question about the great commandment
- The Besting of the Pharisees by the Son of God
- The Rejection of falsely professing Jewish Christian leaders as portrayed in the rejection of Israel's leaders
- Prohibition of honorific titles in the Church
- Warning agaist hypocrisy
- The Persection of disciples, the rise of ecclesiastical antinomianism, and worldwide proclamation of the Kingdom as noneschatological characteristics of the Church age
- The Abomination of desolation as an eschatological sign and the coming of the Son of Man as a public event
- The Nearness of the Son of Man
- The Undertainty concerning the exact time of the Son of Man's coming
- Maltreatment of fellow disciples as a characteristic of false discipleship which will draw judgment at the Lord's coming.
- Watching as doing good works in obedience to Jesus' teaching
- Once more, watching as doing good works
- The Criterion of neighborly love at the last judgment with particular reference to demonstrating true discipleship through doing charity to the persecuted messengers of Jesus
- The disciples' understanding that Jesus must be crucified
- Judas's bargain to betray Jesus as a result of Jesus' defending the large expenditure for his anointing
- The Preparation of the Passover and the observance of the Lord's Supper as obedience to Jesus' commands
- Peter as an exmaple of prayerlessness that will lead to denial of Jesus in time of persecution
- Jesus' death as a fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy
- Jesus' example of nonretaliation and refusal to take an oath.
- The Negative example of Peter's denials as a continuation of the warning against prayerlessness
- The Malice of Jewish officialdom
- The Dreadful end of Judas : an example that warns against treachery in the church during persecution
- The Meekness of Jesus
- The Acknowledgment of Jesus as righteous by the Gentiles Pilate and his wife
- Jesus as the model of a persecuted righteous person
- Encouragement to the persecuted : the circumstance of Jesus' death as eschatological proof that he is God's Son
- Christian ministry to persecuted fellow Christians
- The Contrast between the Jewish leaders' deceitfulness and Jesus' truthfulness
- The Resurrection of Jesus as a demonstration of his deity and truthfulness
- The Mission to all the nations and related Matthean themes
- The Literary form of Matthew
- The Date of Matthew
- The Provenance of Matthew
- The Authorship of Matthew.
- Continued 1 : The Opposition and persecution incurred by Jesus and his disciples : The Suffering of violence by the Kingdom of Heaven
- The Gentleness of Jesus toward his disciples
- The Pharisees' plot to destroy Jesus
- The Persectuor's false and unforgivable accusation
- The Wickedness and judgment of Jesus' persecutors
- The Persecuted as the family of the Heavenly Father
- False disciples as those who lack and lose understanding ; true disciples as those who have and gain understanding : Old understanding as a human responsibility
- New understanding as a gift from Jesus
- The Future judgment of false disciples in the kingdom
- The Magnitude of the Kingdom
- The Fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy in the parabolic conundrums
- The Future judgment of false disciples in the Kingdom
- The Necessity of economic self-deprivation to true membership in the Kingdom
- The Future judgment of false disciples in the Kingdom
- The Disciple as a knowledgeable scribe.
- Lack of understanding in unbelieving Jews
- Lack of understanding in Herod the Tetrarch
- Obedient understanding of Jesus' command to serve the Lord's Supper to discipled nations
- Understanding Jesus as saving Lord and Son of God
- Granting understanding to the disciples concerning true defilement
- A Gentile's understanding of Jesus as Lord and Son of David
- Understanding Jesus' will to heal and feed the Gentiles
- Failure to understand the signs of the times
- The Disciples' gaining understanding concerning the evil teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees
- Understanding the Son of Man to be the Messiah and Son of God
- Understanding the Lordship of Jesus for the suffering of persecution
- Understanding Jesus as the new and greater Moses
- Understanding John the Baptist as Elijah
- The Threat of little faith
- Understanding the death and resurrection of Jesus
- Avoidance of causing non-Christian Jews to sin.
- Brotherhood in the Church
- Accepting the unmarried in the Church
- Accepting young people in the church
- Accepting Gentiles in the church
- Churchly acceptance of the blind, the lame, and young people
- The Church's acceptance of publicans, prostitutes, and Gentiles as supported by God's rejection of the Jewish leaders : The Withering of the fig tree
- Jesus' authority and the parable of the two sons
- The Transferal of God's kingdom from the Jewish leaders to the Church as taught through the parable of the tenant farmers
- The Shared condemnation of Jerusalem's leaders and falsely professing disciples in the parable of the wedding feast
- The Evil of the Pharisees in testing Jesus on the issue of paying taxes to Caesar
- The Culpable error of the Sadducees in denying the resurrection.
- Some characteristics of the present commentary including the use of word-statistics
- The Theology of Matthew
- The Structure of Matthew
- The Commentary proper : The Origin of Jesus Christ
- A Messianic genealogy of Jesus
- The Birth of Jesus Christ as the son of David and God with us
- The Worship of Jesus by a vanguard of Gentiles
- The Preservation of Jesus as a sign of His divine sonship
- A Preview of Jewish Calamities resulting from the rejection of Jesus
- The Return of the greater Moses to become the branch of David
- Jesus' baptism by John as a model of righteousness.
- Jesus as a model of obedience to divine law
- Going into Gentile territory because of persecution
- Jesus as a model discipler
- The Encouraging word of God as taught by the greater Moses to his persecuted disciples
- The Disciples' persectution and mission in the world
- The Affirmation of the Old Testament in Jesus' teaching of the law and fulfillment of the prophets
- The Righteousness that surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees : Murder and anger
- Adultery and lust
- Divorce and compassion
- Oaths and divine majesty
- Retaliation, meekness, and helpfulness
- Perfect love
- The Teaching of Jesus the sage : Against ostentation
- Against hoarding earthly wealth
- Against judging
- Exhortations to obedience in heedlessness of antinomian false prophets.
- A transitional formula concluding the first "book" of Jesus' law
- The Authority of Jesus : Jesus' authority in fulfilling the law of leprosy
- Jesus' authority in pronouncing believing Gentiles accepted and unbelieving Israelites rejected
- Jesus' authority in healing Peter's mother-in-law, casting out demons, and healing all the sick in fulfillment of prophecy
- The Authority of Jesus as seen in a storm
- Jesus' authority in killing demons
- Jesus' authority to forgive sins as a model of the disciples' authority to forgive sins
- Jesus' authority to exercise mercy toward publicans and sinners in accord with the Old Testament
- Jesus' authority in the preservation of fasting
- Jesus' authority over death and in the salvation of the woman with a flow
- The Lordly authority of Jesus in healing two blind men
- Jesus' marvelous authority in exorcising a demon from a deaf-mute.
- The Work and compassion of the Lord of the Harvest
- The Workers of the Lord of the Harvest and their authority
- Jesus' commissioning the twelve to harvest Israel
- Jesus' warning concerning persecution in a mission including Gentiles
- A Concluding formula for the second "book" of Jesus' law.