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Matthew: A Commentary, Volume 2: The Churchbook, Matthew 13–28 is unavailable, but you can change that!

Volume two of Bruner’s commentary is called The Churchbook because Bruner sees Matthew 13–28 as concerned primarily with the life of the church and discipleship. Continuing his first volume (Christbook) exposition, Bruner shows here how the focus of Matthew shifts, from Jesus teaching about who he is to teaching mainly about what his church is. Bruner’s Churchbook commentary divides the second...

law and for eclipsing God’s glory by making presumptuous claims for himself. Yet, Chrysostom rebuts, the vision of Moses, mediator of God’s law, and of Elijah, guardian of God’s honor, certifies that Jesus is against neither God’s law nor God’s honor; otherwise they would not have had this meeting with Jesus. This is the main point; the similarities between Moses and Elijah are marginal but interesting: both did miracles, suffered, honored the law, were prophets, received revelations on mountains,
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