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Matthean closing 'this is the Law and the Prophets' Mt 5:17 inclusio correctly identified."},{"refId":"MAT-WOH-7:13","status":"approve","citations":["Deut 30:15-20","Ps 1","Jer 21:8","Sir 21:10","Did. 1:1","Davies-Allison ICC 1.694-698"],"reasoning":"Two-ways Jewish-wisdom tradition cross-references (Deuteronomy; Psalms; Jeremiah; Sirach; Didache 1:1) accurately identified."},{"refId":"MAT-WOH-7:14","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Routine narrative/transitional verse; Greek source verified; surface English at standard ASV/RSV-baseline; no philological divergence requiring scholarly citation."},{"refId":"MAT-WOH-7:15","status":"approve","citations":["Deut 13:2-6","Jer 23:9-40","Ezek 13"],"reasoning":"False-prophets warning correctly cross-referenced to Hebrew Bible eschatological-test-of-discernment tradition."},{"refId":"MAT-WOH-7:16","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Routine narrative/transitional verse; Greek source verified; surface English at standard ASV/RSV-baseline; no philological divergence requiring scholarly citation."},{"refId":"MAT-WOH-7:17","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Routine narrative/transitional verse; Greek source verified; surface English at standard ASV/RSV-baseline; no philological divergence requiring scholarly citation."},{"refId":"MAT-WOH-7:18","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Routine narrative/transitional verse; Greek source verified; surface English at standard ASV/RSV-baseline; no philological divergence requiring scholarly citation."},{"refId":"MAT-WOH-7:19","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Routine narrative/transitional verse; Greek source verified; surface English at standard ASV/RSV-baseline; no philological divergence requiring scholarly citation."},{"refId":"MAT-WOH-7:20","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Routine narrative/transitional verse; Greek source verified; surface English at standard ASV/RSV-baseline; no philological divergence requiring scholarly citation."},{"refId":"MAT-WOH-7:21","status":"approve","citations":["Davies-Allison ICC 1.717-720"],"reasoning":"Matthean-distinctive doing-the-will closing-formula correctly identified."},{"refId":"MAT-WOH-7:22","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Routine narrative/transitional verse; Greek source verified; surface English at standard ASV/RSV-baseline; no philological divergence requiring scholarly citation."},{"refId":"MAT-WOH-7:23","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Routine narrative/transitional verse; Greek source verified; surface English at standard ASV/RSV-baseline; no philological divergence requiring scholarly citation."},{"refId":"MAT-WOH-7:24","status":"approve","citations":["Isa 28:16","Davies-Allison ICC 1.720-724"],"reasoning":"Petra/ammos foundations + Isa 28:16 cornerstone-in-Zion echo correctly identified."},{"refId":"MAT-WOH-7:25","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Routine narrative/transitional verse; Greek source verified; surface English at standard ASV/RSV-baseline; no philological divergence requiring scholarly citation."},{"refId":"MAT-WOH-7:26","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Routine narrative/transitional verse; Greek source verified; surface English at standard ASV/RSV-baseline; no philological divergence requiring scholarly citation."},{"refId":"MAT-WOH-7:27","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Routine narrative/transitional verse; Greek source verified; surface English at standard ASV/RSV-baseline; no philological divergence requiring scholarly citation."},{"refId":"MAT-WOH-7:28","status":"approve","citations":["Davies-Allison ICC 1.725-727","Allison 1993 The New Moses"],"reasoning":"First-of-five Matthean discourse-blocks Pentateuchal-typology correctly noted."},{"refId":"MAT-WOH-7:29","status":"approve","citations":["Davies-Allison ICC 1.727-728","Levine-Brettler JANT 2017 ad loc."],"reasoning":"Authority-claim parallel to Mt 28:18 + intra-Jewish (not anti-Jewish) framing correctly noted."}],"glossaryReview":[{"glossary_id":"parable-of-the-sower-mt-13-3-23-raelian-panspermia-canon-citation-cross-corpus-with-disavowals","status":"approve","citations":["Snodgrass Stories with Intent 2008","Levine Short Stories by Jesus 2014","Davies-Allison ICC 2.371-407","Luz Hermeneia 2.232-256","France NICNT 497-516"],"reasoning":"claim_type=direct correctly assigned: the entry is philological dispute-documentation + acknowledgment-without-endorsement framework, not interpretive synthesis. Surface English at ASV/RSV-baseline. Three reading-strata preserved without adjudication; explicit non-endorsement of Raëlian panspermia reading. All cited scholars correctly characterized."},{"glossary_id":"transfiguration-mt-17-1-9-elohim-manifest-in-glory-mosheh-eliyyahu-divine-presence-cross-corpus-with-disavowals","status":"approve","citations":["Allison 1993 The New Moses (Fortress)","Davies-Allison ICC 2.685-708","Luz Hermeneia 2.392-409","France NICNT 642-661","Hagner WBC 2.490-503"],"reasoning":"claim_type=direct correctly assigned: dispute-documentation, four-layered-allusion philological treatment, acknowledgment-without-endorsement. Allison 1993 Moses-typology citation accurate. 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Even-handed presentation."},{"glossary_id":"mountain-as-revelation-site-mt-cross-corpus-har-sinai-mount-sapunu","status":"approve","citations":["Allison 1993 The New Moses","Davies-Allison ICC 1.422-427"],"reasoning":"claim_type=direct correctly assigned: Matthean structural-theological pattern (Mt 5:1 + 5:14 + 17:1 + 17:9 + 17:20 + 28:16) is a standard scholarly observation. Bidirectional cross-corpus wiring to Hebrew Sinai entry and Ugaritic Mount Sapunu entry is well-grounded."},{"glossary_id":"kingdom-of-heaven-basileia-tōn-ouranōn-mt-distinctive-cross-corpus-hebrew-malkhut-shamayim","status":"approve","citations":["Davies-Allison ICC 1.389-392","Luz Hermeneia 1.215-219","rabbinic malkhut shamayim tradition"],"reasoning":"claim_type=direct correctly assigned: Matthean-distinctive systematic-redactional-substitution of basileia tōn ouranōn for basileia tou theou is well-attested; rabbinic malkhut shamayim cross-corpus parallel is standard scholarship."},{"glossary_id":"abolish-or-fulfill-mt-5-17-katalysai-vs-plērōsai-christian-supersessionism-disavowal-cross-corpus","status":"approve","citations":["BDAG 827-829 s.v. plēroō","Davies-Allison ICC 1.481-487","Luz Hermeneia 1.260-268","France NICNT 180-189","Hagner WBC 1.105-108","Nolland NIGTC 217-222","Levine-Brettler JANT 2017 ad loc."],"reasoning":"claim_type=direct correctly assigned: BDAG plēroō 5-sense semantic-range is accurate; supersessionist-disavowal apparatus is well-grounded; Levine-Brettler 2017 Jewish-Christian dialogue framing correctly invoked. Comprehensive philological treatment."},{"glossary_id":"sheep-and-goats-mt-25-31-46-adelphōn-mou-tōn-elachistōn-three-readings-gray-cross-corpus","status":"approve","citations":["Gray 1989 The Least of My Brothers SBLDS 114","Donahue TS 47 (1986) 3-31","Davies-Allison ICC 3.418-433","Luz Hermeneia 3.279-282","Hagner WBC 2.744-746"],"reasoning":"claim_type=direct correctly assigned: Gray 1989 SBLDS 114 three-reading-strata adjudication is comprehensive scholarly inventory, not project-specific synthesis. Universalist / restricted-missionary / restricted-brethren-only readings correctly characterized."},{"glossary_id":"isa-7-14-virgin-birth-mt-1-22-23-parthenos-vs-almah-philological-dispute-cross-corpus","status":"approve","citations":["Justin Martyr Dialogue with Trypho 71-77","Childs 2001 Isaiah commentary","Brown 1993 143-153","Davies-Allison ICC 1.213-217","LXX vs MT philological dispute"],"reasoning":"claim_type=direct correctly assigned: locus classicus of Jewish-Christian philological polemic with documentary chain from Justin 71-77 onward. Hebrew ʿalmâ vs LXX parthenos philological data correctly presented. Multiple operational disavowals (supersessionist / Mariological / Raëlian) appropriate."},{"glossary_id":"emmanuel-frame-inclusio-mt-1-23-mt-28-20-divine-presence-cross-corpus-kupp","status":"approve","citations":["Kupp 1996 Matthew's Emmanuel SNTSMS 90 (Cambridge)","Davies-Allison ICC 3.687-689"],"reasoning":"claim_type=direct correctly assigned: Kupp 1996 SNTSMS 90 monograph is THE comprehensive treatment of the Matthean Emmanuel-inclusio. The Mt 1:23 (meth' hēmōn ho theos) ↔ Mt 28:20 (meth' hymōn eimi) structural-inclusio is well-documented."},{"glossary_id":"beatitudes-mt-5-3-12-makarios-formula-ethical-teaching-cross-corpus","status":"approve","citations":["Davies-Allison ICC 1.429-466","Luz Hermeneia 1.190-217","Betz 1995 Sermon on the Mount Hermeneia","1QM 11:9 Qumran ʿnwy rwḥ"],"reasoning":"claim_type=direct correctly assigned: makarios/ʾašrê LXX-rendering pattern + Hebrew-wisdom beatitude tradition + Qumran ʿnwy rwḥ parallel + Isa 61 cross-corpus all standard scholarship."},{"glossary_id":"lords-prayer-mt-6-9-13-pater-hēmōn-byzantine-doxology-textual-variant-cross-corpus","status":"approve","citations":["Metzger Textual Commentary 1994 ad loc.","Davies-Allison ICC 1.593-616","Luz Hermeneia 1.310-330","France NICNT 240-253","Didache 8:2","BDAG 376-377 s.v. epiousios"],"reasoning":"claim_type=direct correctly assigned: critical-text consensus for doxology omission (B+א+critical text); Didache 8:2 shorter-form evidence for liturgical-development; epiousios hapax three-rendering treatment all sound philological work."},{"glossary_id":"aiōnios-mt-25-41-46-eternal-vs-age-pertaining-cross-corpus","status":"approve","citations":["Sasse TDNT 1 (1964) 197-209","Hart 2017 The New Testament (Yale)","Hart 2019 That All Shall Be Saved (Yale)","Fudge 2011 The Fire That Consumes","Davies-Allison ICC 3.433-435"],"reasoning":"claim_type=direct correctly assigned: philological-breadth treatment with both eternalist and conditionalist positions accurately presented. Sasse TDNT + Hart + Fudge citations correctly characterized. No surface pre-resolution of hell-doctrine debate."},{"glossary_id":"iēsous-yehoshua-yhwh-saves-folk-etymology-cross-corpus","status":"approve","citations":["Davies-Allison ICC 1.209","Brown 1993 130-131","Sir 46:1 (Joshua-son-of-Nun)"],"reasoning":"claim_type=direct correctly assigned: Greek/Hebrew/Aramaic name-cognate trio (Iēsous/Yĕhôšuaʿ/Yēšûaʿ) + yšʿ-root folk-etymology + Mt 1:21 angel-rationale + Sir 46:1 typological parallel all standard scholarship."},{"glossary_id":"christos-māšîaḥ-anointed-one-cross-corpus-greek-hebrew-aramaic","status":"approve","citations":["Davies-Allison ICC 1.149-160","Hebrew Bible anointing tradition","Dan 9:25-26","Qumran messianic expectation"],"reasoning":"claim_type=direct correctly assigned: Greek/Hebrew/Aramaic cognate trio + Hebrew Bible anointing-of-king-priest-prophet tradition + Dan 9:25-26 māšîaḥ + Quranic al-masīḥ cross-corpus all standard."},{"glossary_id":"son-of-man-bar-enash-dan-7-13-mt-cross-corpus","status":"approve","citations":["Dan 7:13-14 LXX","Vermes 1973 Jesus the Jew (bar nasha idiomatic-self-reference)","Collins 1995 The Scepter and the Star (apocalyptic-titular)","Davies-Allison ICC 2.43-53"],"reasoning":"claim_type=direct correctly assigned: Dan 7:13-14 source-text + Vermes 1973 bar nasha idiom-hypothesis + Collins 1995 apocalyptic-titular position presented as competing scholarly traditions, not adjudicated. Sound philology."},{"glossary_id":"golden-rule-mt-7-12-hillel-cross-corpus","status":"approve","citations":["b.Shabbat 31a (Hillel)","Tobit 4:15","Confucius Analects 15.23","Letter of Aristeas 207","Sir 31:15","Davies-Allison ICC 1.685-690"],"reasoning":"claim_type=direct correctly assigned: comprehensive cross-corpus golden-rule parallels (Hillel; Tobit; Confucius; Aristeas; Sirach) + Matthean positive vs Hillel negative formulation difference correctly characterized."},{"glossary_id":"sbl-polytonic-greek-transliteration-convention","status":"approve","citations":["SBL Handbook of Style 2nd ed. (SBL 2014)","NA28 / UBS5 polytonic conventions"],"reasoning":"claim_type=direct correctly assigned: project-standard transliteration convention is appropriately tagged as direct. Macron-marked long-vowels for η/ω + breathings + diphthongs convention is consistent with scholarly transliteration practice."},{"glossary_id":"lords-prayer-doxology-textual-variant-convention","status":"approve","citations":["Metzger Textual Commentary 1994 ad loc.","Davies-Allison ICC 1.615-616","Didache 8:2"],"reasoning":"claim_type=direct correctly assigned: critical-text consensus is direct documentary fact. Convention omits Byzantine doxology per B+א+critical text, documents Didache 8:2 shorter doxology as evidence of liturgical addition."},{"glossary_id":"epiousios-hapax-translation-convention","status":"approve","citations":["Davies-Allison ICC 1.607-610","Jeremias Prayers of Jesus 1967","BDAG 376-377 s.v. epiousios"],"reasoning":"claim_type=direct correctly assigned: convention preserves all three classical etymologies (daily/for-tomorrow/supersubstantial) and adopts dominant English-tradition rendering without adjudicating dispute. Jeremias 1967 Aramaic-background hypothesis correctly characterized as one position."},{"glossary_id":"aionios-eternal-vs-age-pertaining-translation-convention","status":"approve","citations":["Sasse TDNT 1.197-209","Hart 2017","Fudge 2011"],"reasoning":"claim_type=direct correctly assigned: convention preserves dominant English-tradition rendering and documents philological breadth without pre-resolving eternalist-vs-conditionalist-vs-universalist hell-doctrine debate. Modern philological consensus correctly characterized."},{"glossary_id":"raca-aramaic-insult-untranslated-mt-5-22","status":"approve","citations":["Davies-Allison ICC 1.511-515","Luz Hermeneia 1.285-289","France NICNT 200-201","BDAG 902 s.v. rhaka"],"reasoning":"claim_type=direct correctly assigned: Matthean preservation of Aramaic-loan untranslated is direct textual fact; three-fold judgment escalation (anger/rhaka/mōre) is standard Matthean rhetorical-intensification reading."},{"glossary_id":"adelphōn-mou-presence-absence-asymmetry-mt-25-40-vs-25-45-gray","status":"approve","citations":["Gray 1989 SBLDS 114","Donahue TS 47 (1986) 3-31","Davies-Allison ICC 3.418-433"],"reasoning":"claim_type=direct correctly assigned: textual-asymmetry (v.40 has adelphōn mou; v.45 lacks it) is direct textual fact reported by Gray 1989. Convention to preserve asymmetry on surface is faithful to source."}],"lens-leakage-flags":[]}}, "segments": [], "lines": [], "paragraphs": [{ "n": 1, "refId": "MAT-WOH-7:1", "text": "Do not judge, so that you may not be judged." },{ "n": 2, "refId": "MAT-WOH-7:2", "text": "For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you." },{ "n": 3, "refId": "MAT-WOH-7:3", "text": "Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the beam that is in your own eye?" },{ "n": 4, "refId": "MAT-WOH-7:4", "text": "Or how can you say to your brother, \"Let me take the speck out of your eye,\" while behold, the beam is in your own eye?" },{ "n": 5, "refId": "MAT-WOH-7:5", "text": "You hypocrite, first take the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye." },{ "n": 6, "refId": "MAT-WOH-7:6", "text": "Do not give what is holy to dogs, nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces." },{ "n": 7, "refId": "MAT-WOH-7:7", "text": "Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you." },{ "n": 8, "refId": "MAT-WOH-7:8", "text": "For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened." },{ "n": 9, "refId": "MAT-WOH-7:9", "text": "Or what man is there among you, whose son will ask him for bread — will he give him a stone?" },{ "n": 10, "refId": "MAT-WOH-7:10", "text": "Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a snake?" },{ "n": 11, "refId": "MAT-WOH-7:11", "text": "If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in the heavens give good things to those who ask him." },{ "n": 12, "refId": "MAT-WOH-7:12", "text": "Therefore everything that you wish people to do for you, so also do you to them; for this is the Law and the Prophets." },{ "n": 13, "refId": "MAT-WOH-7:13", "text": "Enter through the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter through it." },{ "n": 14, "refId": "MAT-WOH-7:14", "text": "How narrow is the gate and constricted the way that leads to life, and few are those who find it!" },{ "n": 15, "refId": "MAT-WOH-7:15", "text": "Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves." },{ "n": 16, "refId": "MAT-WOH-7:16", "text": "By their fruits you will recognize them. Do they gather grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?" },{ "n": 17, "refId": "MAT-WOH-7:17", "text": "So every good tree bears good fruit, but the rotten tree bears bad fruit." },{ "n": 18, "refId": "MAT-WOH-7:18", "text": "A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a rotten tree bear good fruit." },{ "n": 19, "refId": "MAT-WOH-7:19", "text": "Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire." },{ "n": 20, "refId": "MAT-WOH-7:20", "text": "So then, by their fruits you will recognize them." },{ "n": 21, "refId": "MAT-WOH-7:21", "text": "Not everyone who says to me, \"Lord, Lord,\" will enter the kingdom of the heavens, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in the heavens." },{ "n": 22, "refId": "MAT-WOH-7:22", "text": "Many will say to me on that day, \"Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name cast out demons, and in your name perform many mighty works?\"" },{ "n": 23, "refId": "MAT-WOH-7:23", "text": "And then I will declare to them, \"I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.\"" },{ "n": 24, "refId": "MAT-WOH-7:24", "text": "Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and does them will be likened to a wise man who built his house upon the rock." },{ "n": 25, "refId": "MAT-WOH-7:25", "text": "And the rain came down, and the rivers came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it did not fall, for it had been founded upon the rock." },{ "n": 26, "refId": "MAT-WOH-7:26", "text": "And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be likened to a foolish man who built his house upon the sand." },{ "n": 27, "refId": "MAT-WOH-7:27", "text": "And the rain came down, and the rivers came, and the winds blew, and struck against that house; and it fell — and great was its fall." },{ "n": 28, "refId": "MAT-WOH-7:28", "text": "And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished these words, the crowds were astonished at his teaching;" },{ "n": 29, "refId": "MAT-WOH-7:29", "text": "for he was teaching them as one having authority, and not as their scribes." } ] }, "links": { "self": "/v1/library/books/matthew-woh/chapters/7", "book": "/v1/library/books/matthew-woh/", "chapters": "/v1/library/books/matthew-woh/chapters/", "library": "/v1/library/", "schema": "/v1/schema/book/" } }