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The Jews
I think say there are
three meanings for anything in the Torah—
the plain
sense, the prophetic
and the hidden, real significance—well, it's true
that
Matthew's use of Scripture wouldn't last
five minutes in a sound Evangelical school!
In this
debate at least, Andrew,
it's time that we put down this mongrel reason,
born out
of Aristotle and Descartes,
cross-bred with Darwin, Freud and Jung—
slipping
the leash of faith it has turned wild,
this pit-bull logic, with the jaws
of its reductio
ad absurdum locked
on anything that might get in its way.
Matthew’s
use of Scripture. eg Matthew 1:22-23 or 2:18, where Old Testament
prophetic passages which had a contemporary purpose are applied by Matthew to
the life of Jesus.
reductio
ad absurdum “Reduce to the absurd”, a primary tool of
Aristotelian logic for exposing the fallacy of an assumption by showing that
when it is taken to its logical conclusion it proves its opposite.