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Easter 3
April 19, 2015
Goldingay, John, "Psalm 4: Ambiguity and Resolution," Tyndale Bulletin, 2006.
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Summary: “Translations of Psalm 4 differ at a number of points and thus point towards different understandings of it. In isolation, the opening verses do indeed raise a number of textual questions, and contain a number of interpretative ambiguities, which leave the reader in some uncertainty; but the last part of the psalm clarifies matters and makes it possible from the end to make coherent sense of the whole. Understanding the psalm thus turns out to resemble understanding a sentence, which cannot be grasped until we have reached the end of it.”
Brusic, Robert M., "A River Ride with 1 John: Texts of the Easter Season," Word & World, 1997. (Section on this text begins on page 215.)
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“The First Letter of John carries us forward in the brisk current of the gospel while shaking us up with its insistence upon coherence between faith and life.”
Hiebert, D. Edmond, "An Exposition of 1 John 2:29-3:12," Bibliotheca Sacra, 1989.
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Having enjoined his readers to contemplate God's love-gift, John then gave personal expression to that love by addressing them as "beloved" (Αγαπητοί) (cf. 2:7). The recipients of God's love are also loved by the apostle. He united his readers with himself in contemplating God's saving love in the present and the future:
Karris, Robert J., "Luke's Soteriology of With-ness," Currents in Theology and Mission, 1985.
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At the end of Luke's Gospel there occurs the story of the two disciples on the way to Emmaus. (24:13-35) Again we find Jesus eating with outcasts, but this time the outcasts are two of his disciples who have abandoned the journey of faith and left Jerusalem, the city of the new life of the resurrection. The Messianic Banquet is also for these folks.
Johnson, Andy, "Our God Reigns: The Body of the Risen Lord in Luke 24," Word & World, 2002.
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“In the resurrection and ascension of Jesus, God has begun the ultimate reversal of the current social and political order. In resurrection, God remains faithful to creation, redeeming it in its entirety.”
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