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A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Gospel according to Saint Matthew, Volume 3 is unavailable, but you can change that!

For over one hundred years, the International Critical Commentary series has held a special place among works on the Bible. It has sought to bring together all the relevant aids to exegesis—linguistic and textual no less than archaeological, historical, literary and theological—with a level of comprehension and quality of scholarship unmatched by any other series. No attempt has been made to...

Father giving his name to Jesus (Jn 17:11; Phil 2:9; Gos. Truth 38:5–15). But we are unaware of comparable texts regarding the Spirit. We see no developed Trinitarianism in the First Gospel. But certainly later interpreters found in the baptismal formulation an implicit equality among Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; so for instance Basil the Great, Hom. Spir. 10:24; 17:43.47 20. Jesus—who as the exalted Lord remains teacher—has the last word. What happened subsequently is not narrated. διδάσκοντες
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