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Matthew 26:64 is NOT a "Preterist Time Indicator" Pointing to AD70 "In short, the usage of "Apo Arti" in Matthew 26:64 [Apo ("from" - Strongs 575) and Arti ("now on" - Strong's 737)] is highly suggestive of the themes that have been previously offered at this blog ; that is, a series of revelatory recognitions of the power and glory of Jesus Christ's dominance by friend and foe alike. Though the typically pret-friendly Weymouth translation would like to make Jesus say "later on, you will see.." this is not really honest. I would rather say that it was simply a mistake, but I find it impossible to believe that neither Richard Francis Weymouth ("If this belief ever obtains general acceptance the earlier date of the Apocalypse will also be regarded as fully established. For it will then be seen that the book describes beforehand events which took place in 70 A.D.") nor Earnest Hampden-Cook (co-editor and author of "The Christ Has Come") were aware of how important (ironically) a futurist spin on this passage is to uphold their Preterist assumptions. However, not only is there no sense of futurity in this very emphatic Greek phrase, but rather we see quite the opposite.
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Dr. Israel Perkins Warren
"Christ's judgment seat, the accuser, the evidence, the law, and the verdict, are all in man's own heart." (p. 378) "Of the doctrine thus presented, I desire to remark in review: 1. That it is to be regarded neither as a praeterist nor a futurist view ; rather does it include both. If it be affirmed that the Parousia began at the ascension, it is not meant that it is not also a fact of all time coming ages. If it be spoken of as the object of future expectation, it is not meant that it has not also begun to be enjoyed already. I ask especially that I may not be represented as saying that the resurrection is "past already," or that the day of judgment occurred at the destruction of Jerusalem. The Parousia, including under it Christ's reign as King, Life-giver, and Judge, is not an event, but a dispensation.. The past, present, and future meet in one grand whole." "The Church would have been taught to speak of THE
PRESENCE OF THE LORD as that from which its hopes were to be realized..
There would have been no difficulty in conceiving that that presence began
to be near at the time when, in that primitive age, it was expected, and was
enjoyed, in fact, before that existing generation passed away, and would
continue long enough for every thing to happen under it which prophecy
connects with it." ("The Parousia", Quoted in Baptist Review) WARREN'S 1872 SUNDAY SCHOOL COMMENTARY ON MATTHEW 24 & 25 Sunday School Commentary : Gospel & Acts
(On Matthew 22:7) WHAT OTHERS HAVE SAID J.R. Baums (1879) "It is far from likely that his novel interpretations of Scripture will prove universally acceptable ; but, on the other hand, it can not be doubted that he will severely shake the confidence of many millenarians and that of not a few who have rested on the more commonly accepted interpretation. For ourselves, we are free to confess that if the Scriptures could be shown to harmonize with the doctrine of an immediate resurrection, we should be glad to accept it." (p. 311)
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