[B-Greek] Matthew 16:18 - two questions

Jeffrey B. Gibson jgibson000 at comcast.net
Mon Jul 21 17:25:13 EDT 2008


Harold Holmyard wrote:
> Eric,
>   
>> Since Jesus doesn't say, "The gates of Hades will not prevail 
>> against Me," but says they will not prevail against "it" - i.e., 
>> either the church or Peter's confession - I'm not sure that one 
>> can assert that He's talking about His resurrection as busting 
>> open the gates of Hades. Rather, either His church or those who 
>> confess that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the Living God 
>> (which in a sense is His church), are the "it" against which 
>> the gates of Hades will not be able to prevail.Eric S. Weiss
>>   
>>     
>
> HH: The church is the "body of Christ."
>
> 1Cor. 12:27  Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.
>
>   
I'll be hanged if I can find anything in the Greek text of Matthew that 
shows that Matthew subscribed to this notion of the EKKLHSIA, let alone 
that he was in agreement with everything Paul said or professed.   Have 
I missed something?  Or is the above a good example of eisegesis?

Jeffrey

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