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In Matthew 5, Jesus affirms the enduring authority of the Torah, reflecting a tradition in Jewish literature, such as in Baruch, that says the Torah is permanent and life-giving. Matthew shows Jesus participating in Torah interpretation and application.
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2500 BCE
1000+ CE
Baruch 4:1
Deuterocanon
1 This is the book of God’s commandments and the law that endures forever. All those who hold it fast will live, but those who leave it will die. 2 Turn, O Jacob, and take hold of it. Walk toward the shining of its light. 3 Don’t give your glory to another, nor the things that are to your advantage to a foreign nation. 4 O Israel, we are happy; for the things that are pleasing to God are made known to us.
Date: 200–50 BCE (based on scholarly estimates)
Matthew 5:18
New Testament
17 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have not come to abolish these things but to fulfill them. 18 I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth pass away not the smallest letter or stroke of a letter will pass from the law until everything takes place. 19 So anyone who breaks one of the least of these commands and teaches others to do so will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever obeys them and teaches others to do so will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 20 For I tell you, unless your righteousness goes beyond that of the experts in the law and the Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven!
Date: 70–90 CE (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References
"... Elsewhere, the perpetuity of the Law is asserted: in Baruch 4:1; In Sirach 24:9 with verse 23, the Wisdom that says of herself, 'before time from the beginning he created me, and unto the end of time I shall not cease' is, 'the Law that God commanded Moses.' In Enoch 99:2, it is the 'eternal law' ..."
D. D. Whitfield Mowbray, “The Johannine Logos Doctrine and Its Sources” (diss., Durham University, 1952), 262–263.
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