Todd Way
Tom Wright offers an interesting proposal on the “sword” statement. Perhaps it needs to be viewed in light of its historicity, and the story of Israel. Those who followed Jesus would be vindicated as true Israel, the true people of God. Those who clung to the old way, of nationalistic zeal and the temple would indeed experience the “sword” of Gods judgement, carried out by the Romans in AD70.
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Re: I have come not to bring peace, but a sword
Submitted by Andrew on 10 January, 2009 - 16:20.
Exactly. That makes perfect historical and literary sense. Historical because that’s what happened. Literary because that’s how the language was used in the Old Testament, which is by a very long way the most relevant interpretive background for the Gospels.
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