Lesson 6 - Matthew - Issues and Text Flashcards
What are some significant features of Matthew’s genealogy?
- ) Structure - chiastic structure for emphasis and repetition
- - Jesus –> David –> Abraham –> David –> Jesus - ) Son of Abraham - goes back to Abraham not Adam
- ) Son of David - Jesus is the Messiah and rightful king to the throne
- ) Jacob the Father of Judah - Judah is the tribe of Kings
- ) Four Women - immoral and gentile
- ) V. 16 lacks begot - Jesus was born of a virgin, no earthly Father
What are the various interpretive options for Sermon on the Mount?
a. ) Augustine and early church
- - Jesus’ relationship with the law = Christ upheld the law and pro-OT
b. ) Medieval Roman Catholic
- - Jesus’ relationship with the law = Jesus was not overturning the law, but expanding the law to internalize and increase the implications of the law
c. ) Anabaptist
- - Jesus’ relationship with the law = new law for the church. OT is done away with, with the NT being the new law.
d. ) Lutheran
- - Sermon on the mount is gospel, not law. The main purpose of it is to expose our sinfulness.
e. ) Liberal
- - Jesus is a good moral teacher, the sermon on the mount is a good way to live your life, so you can get to heaven.
f. ) Dispensationalist
- - Israel and the church are seperate, but different
- - Sermon on the Mount is not about the gospel, but good works, so it has to do with Israel, not the church.
- - Moral code that Jesus was offering to ethnic Israel and the millenial kingdom reign that Jesus is going to set up.
g. ) Reformed
- - Jesus is re-establishing and upholding the original intent of the moral law of God in the OT
- - Jesus is not abrogating the law (vs. anabaptist), but he’s also not expanding it (vs. Catholic), but he is setting the record straight about the law. Pro-law and pro-gospel
What are the 3 main options for understanding the 6 Anti-thesis?
- ) Anabaptist
- - jesus is directly contrasting himself with the OT (He’s doing away with it) - ) Roman Catholic
- - Jesus is expanding and furthering the emphasis of the law (New era/new phase of redemptive history with internal meaning, not just external meaning) - ) Reformed
- - jesus is re-establishing, upholding, and clarifying what God always mean
- - General - Jesus is framing the teaching of Jesus around Moses
- - Immediate - fulfill (come to uphold the message of the OT/law)
What are the 6 Antitheses?
- ) Murder/Anger
- ) Adultery/Lust
- ) Divorce
- ) Oaths
- ) Retaliations
- ) Love your enemies
What is the “rock” upon which Christ builds his church?
3 options:
- ) Rock is Peter
- ) Rock = Christ
- ) Rock = Peter’s confession that Jesus is the Christ
Exegetically = The rock is Peter
Theologically= The church is built on Peter:
a. ) Made the confession - church is not built on a person, but a person who’s declaration is Christ
b. ) represents the other disciples who laid the foundation of the church - Ephesians 2:20
What are the various views of Jesus’ use of “son of man” phrase?
- ) Phrase put on the lips of Jesus
- - Jesus never said this, but was just added later by the church
- - If the early church would have made it up, they would have used it all the time, and this is not found anywhere.
2.) Jesus meant someone else
- ) Aramaic idiom of self-reference
- - Son of Man - ancient way of referring to yourself (“a man like me” - ) References to Daniel 7 Figure
- - Jesus makes it clear that this is how he uses it, as well as OT, and Revelation
Jesus sees himself as the judge of all the universe. Daniel 7 is divine
What is the background to “son of Man” and its other usages throughout the Bible?
- ) Old Testament
- - “son of man” - it is used for several different things
- - Psalm 8:4 - human being
- - Davidic King or Messiah
- - Daniel 7 Figure - picture of the end with the son of Man coming for full judgement - ) NT use outside the gospels
- - Acts 7 - Stephen’s speech
- - Revelation 1 - combines Ancient of Days with son of Man - ) Gospels
- - Jesus refers to himself
- - Apocalyptic usage: Jesus on Trial (Mark 14:62)
