Thursday, November 02, 2006

Looking at the New Testament, it strikes me that the writers, and Jesus, of course, clearly reference the text as a fulfilment of the Old Testament. Mark begins his gospel by saying "It is written in Isaiah the prophet: "I will send my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way; a voice of one calling in the desert, Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for him. And so John came, baptizing in the desert region and preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins." Jesus himself says that he came to fulfill the law, not to abolish it. I think it is safe to say that Frye has it right when he says that we need to look at the Bible as a whole, because it clearly references itself as a whole. I say this because it seems to me that Isaiah, as an Old Testament prophet, clearly speaks about events which occur in the New Testament, so not only do you have New Testament writers referencing their writing as based on the Old Testament, but you also have evidence that the Old Testament referenced itself as the foundation of what was to come in the New Testament.

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