Gavin considers 3 views on 2 rival death accounts for "King Edmund's Day, which remembers the events of heathens murdering the Saxon King of East Anglia, Edmund, in 869." Re: Matt. 2 "I'll illustrate this through reference to just 4…critics," Ryrie, MacArthur, "Life of Brian" (film), & Longenecker. Contrary to "critics against the traditional understanding of Matt. 2," from "Ps. 72, Isa. 60, & St. Matt. 2, in regard to the artistic depictions of the Epiphany…one could put a tick…with regard to there being 3 wise men…; a tick for them riding on camels; a tick for them following a star; a tick for them being 3 kings; & a tick over the white Caucasian Caucasoid king, a tick over the light brown Mediterranean Caucasoid king; & a tick over the black Negroid king." E.g. in Matt. 2:9 the star "'went before'" means "'it was proceeding.' For in the…Greek…the imperfect verb is here used for a progressive event in the past, & hence in rendering the Greek, the Latin Vulgate translates it as…an…imperfect… . And…this contrast in the Latin…between the [star in the] imperfect tense, which has the same properties as the Greek perfect [sic., imperfect] tense for our purposes is "coming" to a halt [in the present tense] … 'where the young child was;" means that we have… an ancient recognition by the church father & doctor, St. Jerome, who died in 420 A.D., that the Greek…is…referring to a moving star that came to a halt when it reached…Jesus." 1] "they presented" 3 gifts (Matt. 2:11) refers to 3 wise men, accords well with an identification of 3 kings in the typology of: 2] Isa. 60 (cf. Isa. 66:19) & 3] Ps. 72:10 in the wider context of the 3-fold racial classification system of Gen. 10.
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Gavin McGrath (b. 1960) is a graduate of Sydney University, University of Western Sydney, and Moore Theological College (a Reformed Anglican College in Sydney) in New South Wales, Australia. From April 2020, he is a retired school teacher of both New South Wales, Australia, and...
