Sublime

Their descendants shall be known among the nations, and their offspring among the peoples; all who see them shall acknowledge that they are a people whom the LORD has blessed.

But as in parent-child relationships, the separation was never complete. Early Christian writers accepted the Jewish scriptures as authoritative—there was not yet a “New” Testament, for they were still writing it.

ministry. The Samaritan is transformed and called “good” because he ministers to the beaten man, sharing in his personhood by entering his death experience as an embodied kenotic act.22 He is not good, righteous, or holy because he does the right thing and is a good (right-behaving) boy; he is holy because he allows the Spirit to transform him into

But, as we shall see presently, in Scripture, in second-temple Jewish literature, and in Paul himself, not least in Paul's reading of Scripture, God's way ofputting the world right is precisely through his covenant with Israel. This is the theme that will emerge clearly in the exegesis in due course. God's single plan to put the world to rights is

3He committed all the sins that his father did before him; his heart was not true to the LORD his God, like the heart of his father David. 4Nevertheless for David’s sake the LORD his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, setting up his son after him, and establishing Jerusalem; 5because David did what was right in the sight of the LORD, and did not tur

to the coastlands he will render requital. 19 So those in the west shall fear the name of the LORD, and those in the east, his glory; for he will come like a pent-up stream that the wind of the LORD drives on.