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Matthew 10-19 (Translated) (view source)
Revision as of 19:54, October 14, 2009
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|"And I say also to you: Your name is Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hell will not win against it.
|"And I say also to you: Your name is Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hell will not win against it.
|The Greek name '''Πετρος''' or ''Petros'' literally means "Rocky."
|The Greek name '''Πετρος''' or ''Petros'' literally means "Rocky."
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|And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
|And I say to you, You are Peter (Rock) and upon this Rock I will build My Church. The very Gates of Hell shall be breached by it!
|People commonly imagine that this passage indicates that the Church will withstand the attack of Hell upon it as if the Church is likened unto a fortress founded on an impregnable rock. But Jesus is saying something different. The Church is on the offence and the Gates of Hell is on the defensive, a defense which is failing. The Gates is a defensive devise rather than an offensive weapon. The weapon is the Rock. That name had been given to Shim'on by Jesus and he was known throughout Scripture and in actual living by that name. But here the principle of " seeing beyond by seeing through" holds. When a name is given it often requires us to see through the person bearing the name and see, for instance, a whole series of events to happen - a name like "Maher Shalal Hash Baz", or a future task or mission to be - "Jesus", or a specific event, a description a recent past event and a portent of the future - from Jacob to "Israel", or the Character of God in His relation to Israel or man -"Yohanan". What can be seen through the name of Rock which Shim'on was to bear ? - the destruction of Satan's kingdom by the Kingdom of Heaven of which the Church was to be the elite unit in the forefront. Stones were known to be offensive weapons of the 1st century - the stones and boulders cast up by the launchers of the Roman legion against Masada. But the immediate reference to the Rock name born by Simon Peter was the Rock cut out without hands (just as, in Colossians, baptism is circumcision made without hands) which is the last Kingdom, set up by the God of Heaven and thrown against the next to last Kingdom utterly destroying it. "In the time of these kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed, and this kingdom will not pass into the hands of another race; it shall shatter and destroy all the previous kingdoms, and itself last for ever - just as you saw [ "and I was looking and I saw a rock cut out of the mountain, a rock untouched by human hands and it struck..."] the stone untouched by hand break from the mountain and shatter iron, bronze, earthenware, silver and gold." Daniel 2: 44,45 .
See example 5 of [[New Testament understanding through the Jewish perspective]]
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