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This commentary carefully expounds the original Greek text and theology of the book of Matthew. Dr. Gibbs employs a narrative approach that carefully attends to the literary structure of Matthew’s Gospel. He interprets the text in light of the original cultural and religious context in which Matthew wrote, as well as the audience for whom he wrote. Gibbs focuses on two themes throughout the...

When one turns to focus on the particulars of the Hidden Treasure and the Pearl, it seems quite clear that the dominant feature of the two little stories is, as a number of scholars have noted, the common concluding refrain. The repetition reveals its importance: he went and sold everything and bought.39 The closely related notion of a valued object, I should hasten to say, is also involved, since otherwise the man/merchant’s act of selling everything he had in order to purchase the object at hand
Pages 717–718
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