Posts tagged “Son of God

Invocabit

Posted on February 26th, 2012

Matthew 4:1-11 “So there I was, standing in a hotel lobby with a strange woman, a throbbing heartbeat, and a guilty conscience.” That’s how theologian Russell Moore begins his book Tempted and Tried. The situation is not as bad as it sounds, he assures us – “But in lots of ways it was even worse.” He had been driving through a terrible rainstorm with his wife and four children. They hadn’t gotten nearly as far as he’d hoped, but it was time to stop for the night. They pulled into a chain hotel, and he went in alone to see if there were rooms available. Behind the desk was a young woman, dimples in her cheeks, and as she tossed her hair back as…

The one and only Son

Posted on December 26th, 2008

In an earlier post today, I wondered why Matthew renders “sons” in Jeremiah as “children” (tekna). Gibbs writes in his commentary on Matthew [thanks, Heidi!], “Matthew has taken ‘sons’ in both the LXX and the MT and deliberately rendered it as ‘children.’ His purpose in so doing is to emphasize that Jesus is the true and only ‘son’ and fulfillment of all of Israel’s history. In Matthew 1-4 only Jesus is called ‘son’ (huios), and he is so designated repeatedly.” (p131) Interesting that this comes so close to the citation of Hos. 11.1 in Mt. 2.15, “Out of Egypt I called My SON.”