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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...

texts about God being ‘with’ the saints.51 Here the dominant sense may not be so much that of divine presence52 as of divine assistance.53 For ‘the end of the age’ see 2, p. 429.54 ἕως συντελείας appears several times in the LXX.55 That Jesus does not ascend is a fitting sign of his eternal presence: the risen Lord remains with his people. (i) 28:16–20, which was so important to William Carey and the nineteenth-century Protestant missionary movement, is, from the
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