Finding Parallels

[-I---Love]

so in Matthew 5: 18 and Baruch 4:1 can anyone figure what the parallel is. It seems like there is one, but I am confusing my mind trying to figure it out. Any ideas?!

[phatcatholic]

i love,

first, the verses:

Mat 5:18 Amen, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or the smallest part of a letter will pass from the law, until all things have taken place.

Bar 4:1 She is the book of the precepts of God, the law that endures forever; All who cling to her will live, but those will die who forsake her.

now, here is the commentary from the NAB concerning verses 17-20, and specifically verse 19 from Mat 5:

[17-20] This statement of Jesus' position concerning the Mosaic law is composed of traditional material from Matthew's sermon documentation (see the note on Matthew 5:1-7:29), other Q material (cf Matthew 18; Luke 16:17), and the evangelist's own editorial touches. To fulfill the law appears at first to mean a literal enforcement of the law in the least detail: until heaven and earth pass away nothing of the law will pass (Matthew 5:18). Yet the "passing away" of heaven and earth is not necessarily the end of the world understood, as in much apocalyptic literature, as the dissolution of the existing universe. The "turning of the ages" comes with the apocalyptic event of Jesus' death and resurrection, and those to whom this gospel is addressed are living in the new and final age, prophesied by Isaiah as the time of "new heavens and a new earth" (Isaiah 65:17; 66:22). Meanwhile, during Jesus' ministry when the kingdom is already breaking in, his mission remains within the framework of the law, though with significant anticipation of the age to come, as the following antitheses (Matthew 5:21-48) show.

[19] Probably these commandments means those of the Mosaic law. But this is an interim ethic "until heaven and earth pass away."

personally, i also recognize how the first complete ideas from the two exerpts parallel b/c they both address the eternal nature of the Word of God. i see them referring to the plan of God though, as in, the book of life has already been written, the whole history of the world and the human race has already been established and it will all come to an end whenever the last name in the book earns his/her salvation. i think i recall a verse, but i don't know which one, that talks about the world ending whenever heaven is finally filled to the established #, but i may thinking of a commentary i read instead.

does this help? let me know.........

pax christi,

phatcatholic

[-I---Love]

thanks!

[Aloysius]

i love,

i think it's sposedta be a cross then the word love, but it can ALSO be I LOVE

isn't that an ingenious user name?!! (i kame up wit it! )

[phatcatholic]

i think it's sposedta be a cross then the word love, but it can ALSO be I LOVE

isn't that an ingenious user name?!! (i kame up wit it! )

darn.......u gave my hopes up aloy, i thought u were gonna have some valuable insight about the verses from matthew and baruch.

u still have a chance to redeem urself...........

pax christi,

phatcatholic

[Aloysius]

:rolling: sometimes i'm in a mood to post stuff that doesn't help anybody else out at all. check out my good advice in Open Mic: Don't yawn in the shower you might drown.

anyone with insight to the original topic don't let my antics deter you from sharing :cool:

[phatcatholic]

hehe, silly aloy