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Relying on the Greek and Armenian translations, the author illuminates the Gospel of Matthew in the light of historical events. Comparing Matthew with the rest of the synoptic gospels, Alfred Plummer addresses the Old Testament prophecies fulfilled in Christ.

note. The world is not the Kingdom, although it contains ‘the sons of the Kingdom.’ But the Son of Man brings the Kingdom with Him, and at that consummation ‘the sons of the evil one’ may be said for the moment to be in the Kingdom; but they are immediately expelled, as having no right to be in it (41). That is the meaning of ‘gather out of His Kingdom.’ There are two kinds of evil that are expelled, all that ‘cause stumbling,’ and all that ‘do iniquity.’ The former class indicates, what is not stated
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