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Lesson 1:
The Heading (1:1)
A heading to the genealogy or the book as a whole?
View 1: This provides a heading to Matthew’s Genealogy.
View 2: This provides a heading to Matthew’s entire gospel.
A possible reference to “The New Genesis” / New Creation Language
*Βίβλος γενέσεως
This story of Jesus Christ is the story of how God does away with the Old Creation, a world held captive to sin, death, and sorrow, and brings in his New Creation.
He does this through the person and work of Jesus Christ.
Christ
Not a radical statement for us, but in Matthew’s day, this claim would have been
There were other “Christ’s” or “thought-to-be-Messiahs” (see ), but Matthew believes all of them to be false, and Jesus Christ to be the true Messiah, sent by God.
No article?
Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ υἱοῦ
Likely not intended to communicate anything.
Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ υἱοῦ
Matthew and others will use Χριστός without the article without any apparent significant meaning.
Χριστός
Son of David
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