Introduction to the New Testament: The Collection of the Four Gospels and the Gospel of St. Matthew - Softcover

Godet, Frederic Louis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1592446132 ISBN 13: 9781592446131

Publisher: Wipf and Stock, 2004

Synopsis

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ... will to the end have this faith in the divine promises (Luke xviii. 1--8). It is the time of that long waiting of which Jesus speaks in Mark (xiii. 35) and Luke (xii. 38), which begins in the evening, continues till midnight, is prolonged till the cock-crowing and even perhaps till the morning, when all hope of seeing the Master arrive will seem lost. Is it not, lastly, the time needed in order that the seed may become a tree whose branches shelter the peoples, and that the leaven may pervade the whole of human life? Such is the sum of the facts, each of longer or less duration, which, according to the words of Jesus scattered in our Synoptics, must be placed between His departure and His return, and consequently take place alongside of this third part of the discourse that we are considering. It is then a very grave error to pass lightly over these few verses, that in reality embrace the whole period of the life of the Church, in the actual absence of the Lord, the interval called by Luke by this striking name: the times of the Gentiles (Kaipol edvav). "Jerusalem," he says (xxi. 24), " shall be trodden down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled." This expression cannot denote the time of the domination of the Gentiles, for the phrase would be tautological: the Gentiles will dominate the Holy Land, as long as it will be given them to dominate it! It assumes, on the other hand, its full meaning if it be explained by the two parallel sayings (Matt. xxi. 41 'and 43): "He will let his vineyard to other husbandmen, who will render him the fruits in their seasons (ev rots Kaipols avr&v).... The kingdom will be taken from you, and given to a nation rendering the fruits thereof." The word Katp6s denotes a favourable...

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Frederic Louis Godet (1812-1900), Swiss Protestant theologian, was born at Neuchatel. After studying theology there, at Bonn, and Berlin, he was appointed Professor of Theology at Neuchatel in 1850. From 1851 to 1866 he also held a pastorate. In 1873, Godet helped found the Free Evangelical Church of Neuchatel and joined its faculty as a professor of theology. He died there on the 29th of October, 1900. A conservative scholar, Godet was the author of some of the most noteworthy French commentaries of the late nineteenth century.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wipf and Stock
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1592446132
• ISBN 13: 9781592446131
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 282