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The Gospel of Matthew

Jesus as fulfillment of the Old Covenant

The Call of St. Matthew - Caravaggio

Jewish Christian author Audience – mixture of Jewish

and Gentile Christians Courage and witness (martyr)

Jesus highlighted as New Moses Five-fold structure Typology – OT prefiguring NT

Theme of authority Symbol of Gospel – Man

Overview

YES!! Ezekiel 1:10 and Revelation 4:6—8ff In front of the throne was something that resembled

a sea of glass like crystal. In the center and around the throne, there were four living creatures covered with eyes in front and in back. The first creature resembled a lion, the second was like a calf, the third had a face like that of a human being, and the fourth looked like an eagle in flight

Matthew – Man – because of genealogy Mark – Lion – royalty, John “roaring” Luke – Ox – sacrifice, strength John – Eagle – sky, eagles thought to look at sunSymbols for

Evangelists??

St. Matthew

St. Mark

St. Luke

St. John

Matthew is Jewish Christian writing to fellow Jews now mingled with Gentiles (non-Jews)

Infancy Narrative Genealogy Birth Magi Flight to Egypt Death of holy innocents Return to Egypt

Hey. Who’s the new guy?

List of names given to identify Christ as descendant of David

Rahab – saved herself from destruction of Jericho cf. Hebrews 11

Ruth - But she said [to Naomi], "Do not urge me to leave you or turn back from following you; for where you go, I will go, and where you lodge, I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God, my God.”

“whose mother had been Uriah’s wife” Joseph names Jesus and takes him into his

family, making him a descendant of David

Genealogy

Mary is with child by work of the Holy Spirit

Fulfillment of Isaiah 7:14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a

sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Emmanuel

Visitation of the Magi The glory of the Lord has dawned upon

you…bearing gold and frankincense…

Allusions to OT

Univocal speech – word used in same sense every time e.g. cow

Equivocal speech – used in different sense

By chance – ball, pen By intention – father, dog

Analogical – neither of the above E.g. sharp

A short philosophical break

Analogical speech Synonymous parallelism

Hebrew literary device expressing two ideas with different words

Kingdom come, will be done Parables

Chapter 13 21:28-22:33

Kingdom of God