A Response to John P. Meier's 'Did the Historical Jesus Prohibit All Oaths?'

2008 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-32
Author(s):  
Donald Hagner

AbstractJohn Meier's conclusion that Jesus' teaching in Mt 5:34-37 violates the Law of Moses is incompatible with the evangelist's insistence in 5:17 that Jesus did not come to abolish the Law. Jesus remains faithful to the Law by bringing it to its intended meaning, penetrating to the essence of its teaching. If the letter of the Law is violated, its spirit is upheld: the issue is not the oaths themselves, but the importance of unqualified truthfulness. This too is the meaning of the same material in Jas 5:12. The key to understanding Jesus and the Law is to be found in christological and eschatological realities associated with the person and mission of Jesus.

2008 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-24
Author(s):  
John Meier

AbstractThe total prohibition of oaths (Matt 5:34-37) come from the historical Jesus. The criterion of discontinuity argues that there is no parallel to Jesus' total prohibition of oaths in the Jewish Scriptures, the intertestamental literature prior to 70 C.E., or the NT. The Jewish Scriptures take oaths for granted and imposes them in a few cases. Apart from Jas 5:12, the NT knows of no prohibition; Paul uses oaths with abandon. The criterion of multiple attestation argues that Jas 5:12 represents an independent tradition of the prohibition; Jas 5:12 is parallel to Matt 5:34-37 in both content and structure; James has other examples of Jesus' sayings woven into his epistle without attribution; and Jas 5:12 is at odds with James' treatment of the Law in the rest of his epistle. Hence Jas 5:12 qualifies as an independent witness to an isolated stream of oral tradition preserving Jesus' prohibition. This is Part 2 of a two-part essay.


1930 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 357-358
Author(s):  
A. T. Robertson
Keyword(s):  
The Law ◽  

1969 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 132-135
Author(s):  
Miriam Bodian (book author) ◽  
Michelle M. Hamilton (review author)
Keyword(s):  
The Law ◽  

Author(s):  
Феодор Юлаев

В публикации представлен русский перевод сохранившегося в составе греческих катен«Толкования на Послание к Римлянам» свт. Кирилла Александрийского. В предисловии определяется изначальная форма толкования и с привлечением дополнительных источников делается вывод, что это был экзегетический комментарий, разделённый на «томы». На основании содержания трактата решается вопрос о его датировке и указывается, что отсутствие примет несторианского спора означает, что оно написано до 429 г., а особенности триадологической терминологии позволяют датировать его не ранее начала написания «Диалогов о Святой Троице» (412 или 423 г.). Рассматриваются герменевтические принципы святителя и даётся обзор содержания толкования. Отмечается, что оно посвящено почти исключительно вопросам сотериологии: распространение и действие греха в потомках Адама, бессилие закона Моисея в борьбе с грехом и значение закона, домостроительство воплощённого Слова, Промысл Божий в отношении еврейского народа и язычников, человеческая свобода, которую не отменяет предведение Божие. The publication presents a Russian translation of the surviving part of the Greek Catens «Interpretation of the Epistle to the Romans» St. Cyril of Alexandria. The Preface indicates the initial form of interpretation is determined and with the help of additional sources it is concluded that it was an exegetic comment divided into «volumes». On the basis of the content of the treatise, the question of its dating is solved and it is indicated that the absence of the Nestorian dispute means that it was written before 429, and the features of the triadological terminology allow to date it not earlier than the beginning of writing «Dialogues about the Holy Trinity» (412 or 423). Examines the hermeneutical principles of the Saint and an overview of the content of the interpretation. It is noted that it is devoted almost exclusively to the issues of soteriology: the spread and action of sin in the descendants of Adam, the powerlessness of the law of Moses in the fight against sin and the meaning of the law, the house-building of the incarnate Word, God's Providence towards the Jewish people and pagans, human freedom, which does not negate the foreknowledge of God.


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