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Having devoted the past ten years of his life to research for this major new work, John Nolland gives us a commentary on the Gospel of Matthew that engages with a notable range of Matthean scholarship and offers fresh interpretations of the dominant Gospel in the history of the church. Without neglecting the Gospel’s sources or historical background, Nolland places his central focus on the...

at double loyalty), but at this stage the point is more general and requires only the recognition that life is more than the basics of survival.401 The first reason, then, for not being anxious is that it narrows life intolerably. 6:26 With the illustration of the birds we get to the main thrust of this section: anxiety is wrong because it represents a failure to trust God as provider. Appeal to nature is a wisdom pattern (e.g., Job 12:7–10; Pr. 6:6–11),402 as is the view that God provides food
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