The Journal of Biblical Studies
Jul-Sep
2001
Vol.1 No. 3
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- Keys to the Gate Beautiful by Rick Strelan, Ph. D.
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ABSTRACT:
I offer a new approach to interpreting the Beautiful Gate of Acts
3:1-10. I argue that the adjective 
is better understood to indicate ripeness rather than beauty.
Since ripe fruit was carried to the temple for the Feast of Tabernacles,
I suggest that the gate was so named because pilgrims carried ripe fruit
through it on their way into the Temple. I also suggest that the Feast
of Tabernacles provides a suitable lens through which to read Acts
3:1-10, and that the Hallel Psalms, set for recitation at Tabernacles,
provide a key to understanding the narrative.
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Only the
Father Knows: Historical and Evangelical Responses to Jesus'
Eschatological Ignorance in Mark 13:32 by Harold F. Carl, Ph. D.
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ABSTRACT:
This article is an attempt to ask a number of questions about this
passage: How do those who hold to a Chalcedonian understanding of the
two natures of Christ interpret Mark 13:32? Have ancient and
reformation theologians addressed the key issues? How have modern
evangelicals approached the same issues? Do theological solutions
and discussions applied to other problems in the two-natures context
(like the weakness and omnipotence of Christ) really work for the
knowledge of Christ (his omniscience and ignorance)? How are we to
understand key phrases in Mark 13:32 such as "no one knows,"
"nor the Son," and "only the Father?" How are
we to understand the title "the Son" in the context of the
widening circles of verse 32, chapter 13, the Gospel of Mark, and the
New Testament as a whole? Would some of our modern evangelical
answers to these questions sound like Nestorianism, an over-separation
of the two natures to the point of a division of the person of Christ,
to those who lived during that debate? These are just some of the
issues that confront us. The approach of this article will be a
survey of the interpretation of this verse from ancient Christianity
through modern evangelicalism, followed by discussion of key exegetical
and interpretive issues. Then we will attempt some evaluation of
interpretations and to draw some tentative conclusions.
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