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In Matthew, Jesus warns that those who break the Torah will be told to leave, echoing Psalm 6, where the psalmist tells wrongdoers to depart. Matthew reshapes this from a personal prayer into a message about final judgment.
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2500 BCE
1000+ CE
LXX Psalms 6:9
Septuagint
6 For in death no man remembers you: and who will give you thanks in Hades? 7 I am wearied with my groaning; I shall wash my bed every night; I shall water my couch with tears. 8 My eye is troubled because of my fierce anger; I am worn out because of all my enemies. 9 Depart from me, all you that work iniquity; for the Lord has heard the voice of my weeping. 10 The Lord has listened to my petition; the Lord has accepted my prayer.
Date: 100–1 BCE (based on scholarly estimates)
Matthew 7:23
New Testament
18 A good tree is not able to bear bad fruit, nor a bad tree to bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 So then, you will recognize them by their fruit. 21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the kingdom of heaven—only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven. 22 On that day, many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many powerful deeds in your name?’ 23 Then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you. Go away from me, you lawbreakers!’ 24 “Everyone who hears these words of mine and does them is like a wise man who built his house on rock.
Date: 70–90 CE (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References
"... The study of the use of the Old Testament in the New Testament continues to be a work in progress. The book of Psalms is quoted many times in the New Testament, and a few special verses from the Psalms come in for repeated use in both the New Testament in general and Hebrews in particular ... Psalm 6:8 - Matthew 7:23, Jesus using biblical language to describe his experience; in psalm of the psalmist ..."
Ben Witherington, Letters and Homilies for Jewish Christians: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary on Hebrews, James and Jude (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2010), 110.
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