in light of the newness of Jesus’ arrival as a call for the nation to repent?” Jesus’ commands, then, are to be explained in an old-fashioned covenantal framework: the God of the Covenant, the Holy One of Israel, is calling his people for the final time to radical covenantal obedience. The commands to follow Jesus before all else are nothing but the reaffirmation and reapplication of the first commandment: “You shall have no other gods before me” (Exod. 20:3). Once again, the foundation of this commandment,
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