Originally Posted by sotto voce

Personal summary.

Originally Posted by Duvduv

And therefore, what??

Originally Posted by sotto voce

And therefore, obviously, the summary cannot be supposed to represent the views of anyone else.

Originally Posted by sotto voce

And therefore, obviously, the summary cannot be supposed to represent the views of anyone else.

Originally Posted by Duvduv

By way of summary we find that despite many citations from the Hebrew scriptures in the epistles, indicating the author(s) were familiar with them, the usual references that we would expect to see in reference to the messiah and the messianic times are quite absent from the epistles.

If a non-historical Christ was the salvation of mankind and the author(s) of the epistles frequently cited the Hebrew scriptures, why do the authors of the epistles ignore references pointing to the messiah and Elijah in reference to the Christ?

Here is a helpful page that indicates Old Testament citations in the NT including the epistles.

http://www.bible-researcher.com/quote02.html

There are many interesting observations to be made, not the least of which that the relevant passages in Isaiah 53 usually ascribed to Jesus never appear in the epistles.

Aside from the two citations from Malachi 1 in Romans none of the epistles refer to Malachi 3 or 4, which is central to the Elijah/Baptist link in the gospels.

Romans has many other Hebrew scripture citations.

For example, the epistles have no citations from Isaiah 11 Isaiah 40, 45, 49 or Isaiah 65 regarding the messianic epoch (except for one citation of Isaiah 11 in Romans).