Its meaning is that, in the words of Jonathan Pennington, it is "the totality of the collection of all possible cultural interpretations and phenomena in which a text is made". Likewise, one can speak of "my dog" or "my Pomeranian". The latter is a concretion of the former. They both deal with a 'to-be'. The three following perspectives are thus framed in the context of the conceptual alignment of holiness and love.
Here, holiness and love are two sides of the same coin, two views of the same reality. As we have seen, purity is the result of holiness in the biblical sense, but not the meaning of the word. A person can love someone for objective pleasure or by enjoying the pleasure of the loved one.
First, mercy is not an appropriate rendering here, and the "loyal love" of ד ֶּס ֶּח should inform the emphasis of the Greek ἔλεος. Second, the parable of the unforgiving servant (Matt 18:21-35) illustrates that mercy in compassion for the helpless is a main expression of love for God. For the disciple, a delight in God that expresses his care for God's happiness through grace for others involves its abstraction in the "polymorphic" commitment of holiness; this love is the concrete implementation of the abstract concept of holiness.
The doctrine of the Trinity suggests that the eternal holiness of God consists in the fact that he is a community of interpersonal love. God's love is "the source" and "the goal" of the believer's love, and "to be perfected in love means to be ruled by love so that everything we do in this life is motivated by and for the sake of love ” (32). It is true that in the history of the language, the core meaning of 'quadosh' is the idea of separation.
It's not about neglecting the little ones of the Torah - that's the one thing the Pharisees did. The first and most important movement, given that holiness is not an explicit subject, is an exploration of the relationship of τέλειος and holiness as an interpretation of the Torah. Holiness as Jesus interprets it is an undercurrent of the Sermon, which is seen more clearly when.
The “Whole” in Holiness
This concept is not moralism, but speaks of the eschatological outworking of Jesus' purpose in fulfillment of the purpose of the Torah.33 Jesus is not exaggerating when he rebukes, "unless your righteousness exceeds the scribes and Pharisees." πλεῖον functions adverbially to περισσεύσῃ and reinforces the comparative genitive τῶν γραμματέων καὶ Φαρισαίων:34 Jesus explains what true righteousness is.35 As seen, their righteousness was rooted in appearance. e purity and contagious impurity. 35 This "true justice" is hardly forensic justice, for that is wholly foreign to the sermon's emphasis on the heart; “it expresses the essence of the Sermon on the Mount” and “is therefore Christian character and behavior in accordance with the requirements of Jesus. In the six exegesis Jesus already challenged contemporary interpretations and applications of the Torah.42 Moreover, Jesus just quoted Leviticus 19 in the preceding exegesis itself.
38 Allison lists the "antitheses" as six "concrete examples" that show the "attitude and behavior that Jesus requires" and "how his demands exceed those of the Torah without contradicting the Torah" (Davies and Allison, Matthew 1- 7, 508). 39 In each exegesis: "Jesus takes a commandment from the Jewish tradition and, without overthrowing it, shows the true intent and practical reality of the commandment, as he urgently advances his point in light of his coming" (Pennington, Sermon on the Mount, p. 182). When 'perfect' and 'complete' are contrasted, as Hagner does here, it seems a distinction without difference, since love is the central aspect of the 'perfect'. What else would that mean but "wholeness".
You shall be blameless (םי ִמ ָת, τέλειος) before the LORD your God. I'm the only one." The use of the future mid-passive is the same even if ὡς replaced ὅτι and Matthew's use of "heavenly Father" takes precedence over "the Lord your God", a substitution which reinforces the comparison given the sermon's idea of sonship. Moreover, the statement 'Love thy neighbor as thyself' forms a climax of this first main section, and has been regarded by some as the central principle of the law" (258). Note that debates about imitation of holiness are probably misplaced - in light of the Sinai Covenant as a marriage between Yahweh and his people, God is in fact calling his people to his devotion to them, his devotion to his marriage, to him to give back.
In short, Jesus shows the true intention of the Levitical command to be holy.47 In teaching the Greater Justice, Jesus interprets a fundamental call of the Torah - to imitate God's holiness in dedication to God and neighbor - as ' a necessity for wholeness that he unpacks the Sermon and will soon ground the Golden Rule ("do unto others") and Great Commandments ("love God and neighbor"). 47 Recall again the interpretative action in the exegesis: "Jesus takes up a command from the Jewish tradition and shows, without reversing it, the true intention and practical reality of the.
The Wholeness of Love
62 For a useful and perceptive study of the Golden Rule in the context of ancient reciprocity relationships from a Lukan perspective (which is still applicable to Matthew), see Alan Kirk, “'Love Your. The Law and the Prophets are [the Golden Rule].” Although this is not equality, Jesus places the Law and the Prophets in the “conceptual class” of the Golden Rule.71 This claim is not. In addition, the golden rule is explicitly placed in relation to the content of the Sermon on the Mount.
Wallace, Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics: An Exegetical Syntax of the New Testament (Grand Rapids: . Zondervan. This in turn flows into the heart of the Lord's Prayer sermon in Matthew 6:10-15. If you read this way, you understand and fulfill in your life the whole purpose of the Law and the Prophets.”78 As R.
It is useful at this point to briefly discuss the relationship of the Golden Rule to the Great Commandments. 78 This understanding corresponds to the importance of the commandments of love in the conversation between a scribe and Jesus Mark 12:32-34. Second, the reciprocity of the Golden Rule ("whatever you want others to do to you, do the same to them") is symmetrical with the reciprocity of the second Great Commandment ("Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself" ).
Therefore, to speak the Golden Rule is to invoke the Great Commandments, and they are mutually interpretive as the matrix that stands as the essence of the Torah.82. In summary, the essence of the Torah is given in terms of the Golden Rule and the Great Commandments, and Jesus' fulfillment of the Torah is found in a people.
Love + Nothing = Holiness Implemented Implemented
He said to Moses and Aaron: "You did not believe in Me to support Me as holy in the eyes of the people of Israel" (Num 20:12). 92 It's not, "Make disciples as you go." The participle is most likely one of accompanying circumstances and takes on the flavor of the finite verb and functions as an imperative. But the content is in everything Jesus taught them, and in Matthew it is the Greater Justice of the Sermon.
What follows in the rest of the NT does not stand as an addition to Jesus' teaching. Canonically, Romans 13 confirms this important trajectory: "Love does no harm to its neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law” (13:10). It involves seeking the pleasure of the beloved - not in everything (i.e., boundless hedonism) that pleases the individual, but in what brings pleasure to God, the ultimate love.
Therefore, the use of the term jealousy is not an unbiased answer, but is framed in the context of a relationship of intimacy and faithful love. Better is Schreiner's observation that “perhaps the use of the passive as opposed to the active. It can be understood as the very answer of love, which concretizes devotion, since it arises passionately for the sake of the beloved.
To what degree is the holiness and love of the disciple analogous to the holiness and love between Trinities. Finally, another aspect that this treatise does not address is the role of the Holy Spirit in the disciple's love.
CONCLUSION
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LOVE AS THE PERFORMANCE OF HOLINESS IN MATTHEW'S SERMON ON THE MOUNT Michael Jones, Th.M. Together with the theological implications of Matthew's Sermon on the Mount given the contemporary and dominant cultural concept of purity as primarily a matter of the external, it is demonstrated that holiness and love exist in mutual complicity.
