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Interviews with Gary Demar and the author Jonathan E Sedlak on this book 1957726091 Toward the end of Matthew s Gospel Jesus pronounces soon coming judgment upon Jerusalem s temple while standing within its precincts Immediately afterward Jesus leaves the temple and crosses over to the Mount of Olives There on the Mount of Olives the disciples of Jesus ask him a series of questions Tell us when will these things be And what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age Immediately following these questions Jesus provides answers to each question This section containing Jesus answers is what Christians today commonly label The Olivet Discourse With this background in mind this academic monograph presents an interesting historical and theological case for the following 1 In the late 300 s to mid 400 s CE a noticeable methodology emerged among highly influential Church Fathers Four are particularly instructive St Hilary of Poitiers St Jerome of Stridon St John Chrysostom and the anonymous Pseudo Chrysostom The methodology they each present in their commentaries pertains to the sequence in which Jesus answers his disciple s questions Jesus is clearly asked one question followed by another and so on As a result of their influence many Church Fathers East and West over the first millennium follow in their footsteps. Reading matthew, trusting jesuss pdf 2 In chapter one the views of fifteen Church Fathers are covered and many are brought in across various footnotes Across the fifteen surveyed closely they each comment on the Olivet Discourse as though Jesus answered his disciples questions in the order he was asked That is to say Jesus answered the first question first followed by answering the next question and so forth. Reading Matthew, Trusting Jesus booker 3 The author also presents a clear case that within the Olivet Discourse these Church fathers recognize first century fulfillment with the discourse in relation to Jesus answer to the first question he was asked In response to the first question When will these things be many Church fathers take for granted that Jesus began by describing events that were near to his disciples events which would occur very soon even within that generation leading up to Jerusalem s destruction in 70 CE However in response to the questions that followed what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age the majority of these Church Fathers transition into futuristic conjecture beyond the first century and even beyond the generations in which each Church Father was living. EBook Reading Matthew, Trusting jesus 4 In chapter three dozens of scholars between the 13th and 19th centuries are surveyed in a quest to learn where their take on futuristic transition takes place within Matt 24 In this chapter it becomes clear that the patristic methology highlighted in chapter one is being parroted by later fathers and scholars Also some commentaries on this chapter have never been translated into English before Bucer Bullinger and Cajetan and one is now updated in modern English for the first time Wycliffe. Reading Matthew, Trusting Jesus kindle 5 In chapter four the views of thirty two New Testament scholars are surveyed continuing with commentaries from the 19th to early 21st century The official commentaries end in detail at 2017 but two 2023 commentaries are mentioned in footnotes Out of these contemporary scholars a case is made that many highly influential New Testament exegetes over the last two centuries each of whom represent a diverse array of denominational backgrounds have either explicitly or implicitly adopted aspects of the methodology proposed by earlier Church Fathers 6 Chapter four also attempts to illustrate that each of these modern scholars generate new methodologies of their own in order to explain the transition they all assume must have taken place between Jesus answers about first century fulfillment and his answers about futuristic fulfillment. Reading matthew, trusting jesusv bible verse 7 This monograph is not only unique for its historical survey of pinpointed exegesis across Matt 24 25 but also because it establishes a reasonable case that Matthew s version of the Olivet Discourse is the only version among the Synoptics that is most clearly designed to correct such traditional assumptions and methodologies Not only is Matthew s Gospel as a whole uniquely crafted so that each of its discourses are not easily misunderstood in their first century historical references but its fifth discourse which contains the Olivet Discourse is structured neatly so that the methodology proposed by early Church Fathers is manifestly questionable. Reading Matthew, Trusting Jesus bookkeeping 8 Consequently to the degree that contemporary biblical scholars adopt aspects of that common patristic methodology they also overlook and misunderstand what Matthew has clarified for his readers by design 1957726091

Reading Matthew, Trusting Jesus: Christian Tradition and First-Century Fulfillment within Matthew 24-25 By Jonathan E. Sedlak

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After pronouncing judgment on the temple in Jerusalem Jesus answers three questions from his disciples on the Mount of Olives Tell us when will these things be And what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age Contemporary scholars have characterized Jesus answers to these three questions in the Olivet Discourse in Matthew s Gospel as a mix between first century fulfillment and future end of the world fulfillment In Reading Matthew Trusting Jesus Jonathan E Sedlak provides a detailed survey of how influential figures across church history from the earliest patristic sources until now have interpreted Matthew 24 discovering that many affirmed first century fulfillment and some ruled out any delay in fulfillment beyond the first century Sedlak s study of the Olivet Discourse in Matthew also examines the rhetorical unity of Jesus answers showing that the discourse s literary features also exclude any delay or transition between periods of fulfillment Both liberal and conservative Christians have misread the Discourse as a prophecy of the end of all things This is not a minor issue If Jesus expected the end of the world He was mistaken and that mistake has significant implications for the reliability of Jesus and or of the Gospels Jonathan Sedlak s study demonstrates in great detail that there has been a persistent preterist element in classic Christian eschatology Peter J Leithart President of Theopolis Institute author of Creator IVP Revelation TT Clark Reading Matthew Trusting Jesus Christian Tradition and First Century Fulfillment within Matthew 24 25.