Sublime

Jesus was replacing adherence or allegiance to Temple and Torah with allegiance to himself. Restoration and purity were to be had, not through the usual channels, but through Jesus.

The fulfillment of Israel’s story in the story of the Messiah is the foundational charter of the church.

The remark that God has made these things known from of old is a way to say that these things were revealed and form a part of God's plan. The new way was revealed and is really an old promise. The phrase "known from of old" (yvword dr' ai@voc, gnösta ap'alönos) recalls Isa. 45:21. Bruce (1990: 341) cites the OT texts about Gentile inclus

from the perspective of the dominant class in Israel.

William Carey, a young cobbler turned linguist, published what became the manifesto of modern Western Protestant missions: “An Enquiry into the Obligation of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathen.” He

The people Crossan described as the expendables, those at the bottom of the bottom of the world’s pyramids of power.

Therefore, we have strong evidence that the panta ta ethn in Luke 24:47 was understood by Jesus not merely as Gentile individuals but also as an array of world peoples who must hear the message of repentance for the forgiveness of sin.

They investigate the past and relate the struggles of the apostles and the Fathers to our present struggles. Thus they become defenders of the faith, showing its reasonableness, its “fittingness” for the oppressed community now.