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The Ethic of The New Covenant:: A Fresher View To Matthew 5
The Ethic of The New Covenant:: A Fresher View To Matthew 5
Covenant:
A Fresher View to Matthew 5
By Angel Guzman
Introduction
For more information about this discussion see Fred Zapel, The New Covenant and the
New Covenant Theology (Frederick, Maryland: New Covenant Media, 211) 27-32.
The Concept
I. Preamble: (5:1-2)
II. Prologue: [Beatitudes] –benefits of the law-code
(5:3-16)
III. Covenant Stipulations (5:17-7:12)
A. General –Christ’s Ten Commandments (5:17-6:34)
B. Specific (7:1-7:12)
IV. Covenant Sanctions (7:13-23)
V. Epilogue: Personal Ratification (7:24-27).
Critic to G.R. Law’s Position
Guy Greenfield, “The Ethics of the Sermon on the Mount”, Southwestern Journal of
Theology, 35 no 1 Fall 1992, p 13-19.
Hermeneutical Approaches to the
Ethical Implications of Matthew 5
Cf. E. Stanley Jones, The Christ of the Mount (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1931),
15f.
Hermeneutical Approaches to the
Ethical Implications of Matthew 5
Cf. Guy Greenfield, “The Ethics of the Sermon on the Mount”, Southwestern
Journal of Theology, 35 no 1 Fall 1992, p 13-19.
Hermeneutical Approaches to the
Ethical Implications of Matthew 5
ִהנֵּ ה
This is a temporal and spatial particle that marks immediacy.
When it is combined with the participle ()ב ִאים
ָ denotes an
imminent action in the future. It appears about 150 times in the
book of Jeremiah, more often in the context of the judgment
and the messianism. The specific combination of יָמים ִ ִהנֵּ ה
appears 21 times in Jeremiah.
Cf. Gary Practico and Miles V. Van Pelt, Basics of Biblical Hebrews (Grand Rapids, MI:
Zondervan, 2007), 149-150.
ְּב ִרית ֲח ָד ָשה
A New Covenant…
Some scholars have suggested that the word ֲח ָד ָשה
in Jer.31:31 may implies a renewed covenant
instead of the new covenant.
Walter C. Kaiser Jr."The old promise and the New Covenant: Jeremiah 31:31-34." Journal
of the Evangelical Theological Society 15, no. 1 (December 1, 1972): 11-23.
A Closer View to שה
ָ ֲח ָד
As a verb (only Piel and Hiphil), it means
renew or repair in the entire Semitic Family:
ܶ
Arabic ( ܰܚܕܬhadet)
Ethiopic ሐደሰ (ḥaddasa)
Assyrian (adâšu), (uddiš)
Aramaic ث ََ َ َحدḥadaṯa and ;ַח ֵּדש
Francis Brown, Samuel Rolles Driver and Charles Augustus Briggs, Enhanced Brown-
Driver-Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon (Oak Harbor, WA: Logos Research Systems,
2000), 293.
A Closer View to שה
ָ ֲח ָד
As a noun, it connotes novelty but based on
a previous element of the same kind.
J. Daryl Charles, “Do not Suppose That I have come”: The Ethic of the Sermon on the
Mount Reconsidered”, Southwestern Journal of Theology Volume 46, Number 3, summer
2004. P. 47-70
Righteousness and Covenant