Now about the dead rising--have you not read in the book of Moses, in the account of the bush, how God said to him, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'?(12:26)
Jesus quoted Exodus 3:6. Moses who experienced God through the phenomena of bush was heard, “'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.'” It is uncertain whether the verse of Exodus can be given as the ground of resurrection.
Firstly this verse should be understood not point out or intimate resurrection itself but the identity of God that Moses experienced. If we consider the fact that Moses’ calling was lane on the salvation of his nation, it becomes clearer. The author of Exodus tried to deliver the fact that the history of Hebrew who was persecuted by Egypt as the minor was connected to the history of patriarchs, from Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. However, Mark’s gospel uses it as the biblical resource of resurrection.
Though he did like this, we cannot say such quotation from the Old Testament was unqualifiedly wrong. It is difficult to say that the quote of the New Testament from the Old Testament is many or rare. The New Testament quoted and interpreted it in the proper places if necessary. Hebrews can entirely be an interpretation for the Old Testament and besides this, the gospels, the interpretation of Jesus’ public life, also frequently quotes the Old Testament. Some part of them have interpreted at the point of the New Testament’s view and they cannot but crash against Jews Scholars due to this matter.
There are many cases to reveal the meaning of the Old Testament much more profoundly though it wasn’t its original meaning. I think the above verse also one of them. The verse which was limited to the authenticity of nation now is sublated at the level of universal resurrection life.
Jesus quoted Exodus 3:6. Moses who experienced God through the phenomena of bush was heard, “'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.'” It is uncertain whether the verse of Exodus can be given as the ground of resurrection.
Firstly this verse should be understood not point out or intimate resurrection itself but the identity of God that Moses experienced. If we consider the fact that Moses’ calling was lane on the salvation of his nation, it becomes clearer. The author of Exodus tried to deliver the fact that the history of Hebrew who was persecuted by Egypt as the minor was connected to the history of patriarchs, from Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. However, Mark’s gospel uses it as the biblical resource of resurrection.
Though he did like this, we cannot say such quotation from the Old Testament was unqualifiedly wrong. It is difficult to say that the quote of the New Testament from the Old Testament is many or rare. The New Testament quoted and interpreted it in the proper places if necessary. Hebrews can entirely be an interpretation for the Old Testament and besides this, the gospels, the interpretation of Jesus’ public life, also frequently quotes the Old Testament. Some part of them have interpreted at the point of the New Testament’s view and they cannot but crash against Jews Scholars due to this matter.
There are many cases to reveal the meaning of the Old Testament much more profoundly though it wasn’t its original meaning. I think the above verse also one of them. The verse which was limited to the authenticity of nation now is sublated at the level of universal resurrection life.
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