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Galatians 2:11-21

Understanding Series

L. Ann Jervis

... noted in the Introduction, when Paul refers to the faith of Christ he is speaking of the type of human life Jesus lived and in which believers too may partake. Believers do not dedicate themselves to an example but are incorporated into the archetypal human being. Paul speaks most often of the believer in Christ participating in Christ’s death and resurrection. In Romans and Galatians, in particular, Paul speaks of believers conforming to Jesus’ death (see esp. Rom. 6; 8). For Paul the Christian life is ...

27. A Prayer for the Ephesians

Ephesians 3:14-21

Understanding Series

Arthur G. Patzia

... of problems: First, patria means a family, clan, or tribe that descends from a common ancestor. It cannot be translated as “fatherhood,” although the idea of fatherhood is there and has led some commentators to think of God as the prototype or archetype of all fatherhood. This is different from saying that God is the father of all, which the passage is not teaching. Second, the phrase whole family (pasa patria) presents a problem analogous to “whole building” in 2:21. Some translations (as NIV) use ...

28. Jesus Made Like His Brothers

Hebrews 2:5-18

Understanding Series

Donald A. Hagner

... understands the psalm to refer to Christ, as well as to humanity, in this instance not merely because of the possible messianic associations of the psalm (i.e., in the last two lines of the quoted material) but, rather, because he regards the Son as the archetypal human being. That is, Jesus is the true embodiment of humanity, the last Adam who realizes in himself that glory and dominion that the first Adam and his children lost because of sin. In him the words of the psalmist have their fulfillment. If the ...

29. The High Priest of a New Covenant

Hebrews 8:1-13

Understanding Series

Donald A. Hagner

... , see W. Michaelis, TDNT, vol. 7, pp. 375–77. The Greek dualism often mentioned as the background to this passage derives from the philosophy of Plato wherein every earthly object is said to be the manifestation of a corresponding archetypal “idea” or “form” that can only be known through the intellect. This dualism between earthly and “heavenly” reality was influential in the Hellenistic world, especially in such a center as Alexandria, where it can be detected in Philo, the Hellenistic ...

30. God Disciplines His Sons

Hebrews 12:1-13, Hebrews 12:14-29

Understanding Series

Donald A. Hagner

... is drawn from Jewish traditions concerning the giving of the law at Sinai (cf. Acts 7:32, but there the trembling is in connection with the burning bush). 12:22 The literal Mount Zion and Jerusalem, because of their great importance, eventually came to be understood as archetypes of the greater eschatological reality to come. On Zion and the new Jerusalem, see E. Lohse, TDNT, vol. 7, pp. 319–38. For city of the living God, see note on 11:10. F. F. Bruce points out that the main verb you have come to ...

31. Warning Against Refusing God

Hebrews 12:14-29, Hebrews 12:1-13

Understanding Series

Donald A. Hagner

32. Trials and Temptations

James 1:1-18, James 1:19-27

Understanding Series

Peter H. Davids

... phraseology that suggested to many commentators that a specific virtue is in mind. Instead of a single virtue, however, “You are that perfect work” (M. Dibelius, James, p. 74). The idea of perfection is not original in James. Noah is the archetypal perfect person: “Noah was a righteous man, perfect in his generation” (Gen. 6:9). He kept God’s law, or he was “of stable integrity, not contaminated by divergent motives or conflicts between thoughts and deeds” (P. J. DuPlessis, Telios: The Idea ...

33. Favoritism Forbidden

James 2:1-13, James 2:14-26

Understanding Series

Peter H. Davids

... pp. 143–49; and especially H. C. Hahn. “Work,” NIDNTT, vol. 3, pp. 1147–52; H. Seebass and C. Brown, “Righteousness,” NIDNTT, vol. 3, pp. 352–77; O. Michel, “Faith,” NIDNTT, vol. 1, pp. 393–607. 2:25 Rahab was viewed by Jesus as the archetypal proselyte to Judaism, and traditions about her abounded. In Christian literature, not only Heb. 11:31 (which stresses her action) praises her, but also 1 Clement 12:1, 8, which is part of a larger section, 1 Clement 9–12. In this section, after a ...

34. The Sin and Doom of Godless Men

Jude 1:1-16

Understanding Series

Norman Hillyer

... , no world to come; no reward will be given to the righteous, and no destruction meted out to the wicked.” So one who takes the attitude of a Cain feels free to do as he or she likes, and Cain’s example misleads others: Cain is the archetypal false teacher. According to the OT account, Balaam first refused fees or bribes to curse Israel (Num. 22:7–18), but eventually the monetary lure proved too strong to be resisted (Deut. 23:4), and he fell into error (planē, a wandering off from the right way). As ...

35. The Indictment and Punishment of Israel Spelled Out

Amos 4:1-13

Understanding Series

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... God (cf. Lev. 26; Deut. 28); that is, for failing to live up to the responsibilities mandated by one’s election to be God’s covenant people. Verse 11 then forms a summary statement of such divine cursing: the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah (Gen. 19:24–29) became the archetype in biblical tradition of God’s judgment on sin (cf. Deut. 29:23; Isa. 1:9; 13:19; Jer. 23:14; 49:18; Lam. 4:6; Matt. 10:15; 11:23–24; Rom. 9:29; 2 Pet. 2:6, etc.). Yet, despite God’s frequent discipline of them, and ...

36. Solomon Asks for Wisdom

1 Kings 3:1-15

Understanding Series

Iain W. Provan

... .E. Clements, Wisdom in Theology (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1992), esp. pp. 94–122. It is of some interest to note the similarity in theme between 3:11–13 and both Matt. 6:25–34 and Luke 12:13–21, the first of which explicitly mentions Solomon as an archetypal figure of riches and honor. The essential element of these NT passages is that people ought to seek God and the kingdom of God first of all, rather than the things of this world. If they do, Matt. 6:25–34 tells us, then these other things will ...

37. Solomon's Daily Provisions

1 Kings 4:20-28

Understanding Series

Iain W. Provan

... where Solomon is accumulating both gold (e.g., 1 Kgs. 10:14) and wives (1 Kgs. 11:3). The extremely large number in the Hb. text of 4:26 is to be expected in view of what the text is trying to say about Solomon as the archetypal multiplier of horses—and numbers in the OT characteristically do aim to do much more than simply communicate facts (see the introduction). 4:33 He described plant life . . . animals: Careful observation of the natural world and how it works is one of the “normal” ways people ...

38. A Prophecy Against Babylon

Isaiah 13:1--14:23

Understanding Series

John Goldingay

... been reapplied here to that city. Babylon is the “Assyria” of a century later, so oracles about Assyria would be naturally reapplied in this way. The focus on Babylon may also reflect even later realities as Babylon comes to be the archetype of national power asserted against God—symbolism that is particularly explicit in the NT Revelation to John. So the Babylon whose fall is described here is not merely the historical Babylon, Israel’s conqueror, but also the symbolic Babylon. Its fall signifies ...

39. Peter Denies Jesus

Mark 14:66-72

Teach the Text

Grant R. Osborne

... the empowering presence of the Spirit. The answer is in 14:28; 16:7: only when we have met the risen Lord and gained strength from him (as indeed happened to Peter [16:7a = John 21:15–17]) can we overcome our failures. 2. Jesus is the archetypal prophet. Jesus the Messiah has long been hailed as prophet, priest, and king, and indeed each is developed in depth in the New Testament (priest in Hebrews, king especially in Mark and John). In Luke’s Gospel the prophetic office of Jesus is highlighted (4:24; 7 ...

40. “You Are My Son; Today I Have Become Your Father”

Psalm 2:1-12

Teach the Text

C. Hassell Bullock

... this psalm and interpret this rebellion in terms of the rebellion of humanity against Jesus Christ. The early church remembered this psalm and equated the nations and peoples with the gentiles, who put Christ to death (Acts 4:25–28). That was the archetypal rebellion of humanity, which simply means we all are involved in that rebellion against the Lord and his Anointed One. Paul at Antioch of Pisidia applied Psalm 2:7 to God’s raising Jesus from the dead, the ultimate proclamation that God is sovereign ...

41. “The Span of My Years Is as Nothing before You”

Psalm 39:1-13

Teach the Text

C. Hassell Bullock

... young incalculably along their journey. Illustrating the Text Foreigners and strangers Quote: Jesus Rediscovered, by Malcolm Muggeridge. One of the paradoxical dilemmas believers face is living in an alien world, ever aware that it is not our home. Abraham is the archetypal “stranger” making his abode in the alien society of Canaan, looking for a city “which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God” (Heb. 11:10 RSV). The effectiveness of our Christian witness depends to a large degree on how ...

42. Love One Another

1 John 3:11-24

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

3:11–17 · The party of Cain—the brother killers—includes the indifferent:Appealing again to the original teachings of Jesus, commanding his followers to love one another (John 13:34–35), the elder leverages the worst of fratricidal archetypes: Cain, the brother killer (3:12; Genesis 4). Would any in his audience relish the idea of being numbered among members of “the Cain Party”? Of course not! The threat of being labeled a brother killer becomes a negative incentive used to motivate the ...

43. The Baptism and Genealogy of Jesus

Luke 3:21-38

Understanding Series

Craig A. Evans

... some four centuries (despite the fact that there were important references to David and the Davidic covenant in the infancy narrative; 1:32–33, 69; 2:11.) For the story of David see 1 Samuel 16–1 Kings 2 (=1 Chron. 11–29). “David” eventually came to be understood as archetype of the Messiah; see Isa. 9:6–7; 11:1–2; Ezek. 34:23, 24; 37:24, 25. 3:32 Jesse: What little is known of David’s father comes from 1 Sam. 16:1–20; 17:12–18. Jesse’s hometown was Bethlehem (1 Sam. 16:1). Obed: Obed ...

44. Righteousness Through Faith

Romans 3:21-31

Understanding Series

James R. Edwards

... (Gnomon, vol. 3, p. 51). In both forbearance and faith God remains just. The cross of Christ adequately expressed both God’s justice and love, and compromised neither. The cross is not a hope of the subconscious or a gestalt of the archetypical memory; it is a historical fact, a demonstration of God’s justice. But in addition to its historical reality, it is an existential reality, for God justifies (the Greek tense indicates contemporary time) those who believe in Jesus. The central truth in verses ...

45. Struggling with Sin

Romans 7:7-25

Understanding Series

James R. Edwards

... , but only to enjoy the theft itself and the sin (Confessions 2.4). 7:9–12 These provocative verses allude to the Edenic beginnings of the race. The dramatic use of I—for the first time in Romans—identifies Paul (and all humanity) with Adam, the archetypal father of the race. Adam’s fate anticipates the human race to follow (except for Christ), and the entire race (except for Christ) is implicated in Adam’s fall. Once I was alive apart from the law refers to the epoch of innocence reflected in ...

46. Warnings from Israel's History

1 Corinthians 10:1-13

Understanding Series

Marion L. Soards

... develops at this point is perhaps surprising, if not shocking. Having highlighted the blessings of deliverance, sustenance, and divine presence, Paul bluntly states that in spite of the ancestors’ having been “baptized into Moses” and having participated in an archetypal Lord’s Supper and having had Christ among them in the wilderness, God was not pleased with most of them, and they were overthrown in the wilderness with their bodies … scattered over the desert. Thus, according to Paul, baptism ...

47. The Resurrection Body

1 Corinthians 15:35-58

Understanding Series

Marion L. Soards

... man. The word likeness is eikōn in Gk., the same word used in the creation account of Gen. 1:26–27 LXX thus, Paul’s meditation is likely built on or related to that part of the OT. In relation to the likenesses of these two archetypal figures, Paul says that believers have borne the earthly man’s “image,” using an aorist to indicate simple past occurrence; and he declares that they shall bear the image of the heavenly man, using a future tense. There is a serious textual variant for the second of ...

48. Deliverance from Godless Opponents

Psalm 54:1-7

Understanding Series

Craig C. Broyles

... of situation and by the phrase, “to seek one’s life,” found in both Psalm 54:3 and 1 Samuel 23:15. As discussed in the Introduction, this is a very intriguing and helpful way of reading the psalm, once one understands “David” as the archetypal person of God. But as also discussed, psalms were first and foremost composed within and for a liturgical setting, not within a desert setting (1 Sam. 23:15), where prose prayers appear to have been the custom (e.g., vv. 2, 10–12). In the quest ...

49. The Woman on the Beast

Revelation 17:1-18

Understanding Series

Robert W. Wall

... is important for the telling of her story. Indeed, John narrates her story as a “mystery story.” 17:8 Schüssler Fiorenza argues that the riddle of the beast is cast in a prophetic form by John, and we concur with her that it predicts an archetype fulfilled in every age, and not a particular city, Rome, fulfilled only in John’s day (Revelation, pp. 164–65, 185–86). Many scholars, however, have understood this riddle in terms of actual Roman rulers, who once was, now is not, and yet will come. This ...

50. Listening and Doing

James 1:19-27, James 1:1-18

Understanding Series

Peter H. Davids

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