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Gundry notes that this section does not appear in Luke or Mark and concludes that it is thus likely original to Matthew.
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Gundry and notes
Gundry notes that the opening line " after the exile to Babylon " clearly does not refer to this verse alone.
Gundry notes that the author of Matthew adds a "&# 966 ;" to Asa's name.
Gundry notes that salt was a minor but essential ingredient in fertilizer, and he feels that " earth " should be translated as soil, and the disciples are thus to help the world grow and prosper.
Gundry notes that some other explanations have been advanced.
Gundry notes that at the time garbage would have been disposed of by throwing it out into the street.
Gundry notes that this verse again makes sure to note Herod is a king.
Gundry notes that the text again mentions that Bethlehem is in Judea, as does the next verse.
Gundry notes that persecution is an important theme of Matthew, who was writing at a time when a number of forces were working to crush the new religious movement.
Gundry notes that the Matthew is the only gospel to use such constructions.
Gundry notes that " two years old and under " properly refers to children who have not entered their second year, thus those twelve months old and younger.
Gundry notes that the phrase translated as " child's life " literally means " child's soul.
Gundry notes that the author of Matthew rejects the more accurate terminology " land of Judah " as he was looking for a term that would encompass both Judah and Galilee, where the family would end up.
Gundry notes the emphasis the author of Matthew gives to how quickly Jesus gets out of water of the Jordan.
Gundry notes that some have read this reference to the wilderness as a comparison to Adam in the Garden of Eden.
Gundry notes that the author of Matthew seems to be a far more interested in this idea than the other evangelists, and in Matthew 6 again seems to present fasting as a model for good behaviour.
Gundry notes that Jesus, as one person, would not need multiple loaves.
" Gundry notes that the original wording makes it clear that God is promising only to protect from accidents, not from deliberate acts such as the one Satan is proposing.
Gundry notes that the choice of the Temple as a setting is evidence for this theory.
Gundry also notes that in the Masoretic text the last line reads " region of the Gentiles.
Gundry notes that Luke has excommunication as one of the forms of persecution, perhaps indicating the differences in situation between the writings of the two Gospels.
Gundry notes that at this time cities would frequently have been located on hills for defensive reasons.
Gundry notes that it could also have referred to the small projections that separate certain letters.
Gundry notes that " enter the kingdom of heaven " appears three other times in the Gospel, at Matthew 7: 21, 18: 3, and 13: 13.
Gundry notes that " I say to you " is one of Matthew's favourite phrases using it 68 times.
Gundry and section
Gundry had been asked to furnish this work on Matthew as the commentary on The Gospel according to Matthew in the Expositor's Bible Commentary, a major evangelical series of commentaries published over the course of a decade or more in the 1970s and 1980s, as each section was completed.
" Gundry feels the author of Matthew added this section to emphasize Jesus ' obedience to God.
Gundry feels that, at least in this verse, disciples has a much broader meaning and refers to any who came to hear Jesus, he feels the word is used interchangeably in this section with crowds.
This section ( Matthew 5: 17 to Matthew 5: 48 ) is traditionally referred to as the Antitheses though Gundry disputes that title.
Gundry and does
Gundry does not imagine that Matthew has made up the list entirely.
Gundry rejects this idea and believes that nowhere does Matthew's text imply such a comparison.
However scholars like Gundry reject this idea, stating that nowhere does Matthew's text imply such a comparison, but rather the desert is more likely an allusion to the wilderness through which the Israelites wandered during the Exodus, and more specifically to Moses.
Gundry and Luke
Gundry believes that Luke gives the actual physical genealogy while Matthew is presenting the ceremonial one.
Gundry argues that the divergence is because while Luke was following Joseph's biological ancestry Matthew is listing Jesus ' predecessors as the leader of the Jewish people.
Robert H. Gundry sees Matthew as a heavily embellished version of Luke with the humble shepherds transformed into the more exotic magi, for instance.
Gundry sees this part of the chapter as an embellishment on the Gospel of Luke, and this verse as a magnified version of Luke 2: 10.
Luke only has the blessed hunger, Gundry feels the author of Matthew added thirst to match Isaiah 49: 10.
Gundry and is
The longest discourse in the Sermon is Matthew 5: 17-48, traditionally referred to as the Antitheses or Matthew's Antitheses though Gundry disputes that title.
Gundry believes that the rest of the genealogy is a creative fiction by the author of Matthew to fill in the gap between the end of the OT sources and Jesus ' birth.
To Gundry once the list moves away from the accepted genealogy of Jewish leaders it is fabricated until it reaches the known territory of Joseph's grandfather.
Gundry contends they are included because the author of Matthew is trying to portray the people of God as a brotherhood.
Gundry believes the latter part of Matthew's list is " a large figure of speech ".
Gundry believes this is an attempt to link the king to Asaph, to whom Psalm 78 is attributed.
Gundry feels that the idea of foolish salt is such " utter nonsense " that no translator would ever make such a mistake, he feels it is more likely that the Semitic expression had been assimilated into Greek and that became foolish was an expression for losing savour.
Gundry contends they are included because the author of Matthew is trying to portray the people of God as a brotherhood.
Gundry, who is highly skeptical of the earlier parts of Matthew's genealogy, believes that these later figures are likely accurate as it is unlikely no one would know who Joseph's father and grandfather were.
Gundry posits that Eleazar is the last fictional creation and that Matthan and Jacob were real people.
Robert Horton Gundry is a biblical scholar.
Gundry argues that by the Romans definition deliverance is saving people from the influence of sin, but in Matthew deliverance is rescuing people from the punishment that will inevitably be meted out for sinning.
Robert H. Gundry believes that having Joseph naming Jesus is a clear demonstration of Jesus ' legal status as his son, and thus as an heir of King David, a continuation of the argument made by the genealogy.
Gundry agrees that the verse is politically motivated and a deliberate foreshadowing of the persecution of Jesus and his church by the leaders of Jerusalem.
To Gundry this is clear evidence of how important Jesus being born in Judea, at the centre of the Jewish world, was to Matthew and those he was writing for.
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