2 Corinthians

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Our House in Heaven

May 6, 2011 by Samuel Frost

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Ben Witherington III has a well deserved career in the academic world. He has produced several commentaries in the Socio-Rhetorical Commentary series of his and they are masterpieces. In one particularly celebrated book, Jesus, Paul and the End of the World (IVP, 1992) Ben interacts with a series of NT texts dealing with eschatology proper. [...]

II Corinthians 3-5

May 3, 2011 by Samuel Frost

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In these chapters, Paul is definitely speaking of the change the new covenant regeneration brings to the believers. Again, I believe that he speaks proleptically, writing as if already living in the age to come (since it was to dawn in his own generation). The “powers” of that age were “already” starting their transforming work [...]