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75 Cards in this Set
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Eisegesis
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An intentional effort to misrepresent a position in order to preserve your preconceived understandings
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Faith (St. Victor)
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Faith is a form of mental certitude that is greater than belief but less than knowledge
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Theophany
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The audible and the visible manifestations of God to human beings
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Faith (Hebrews 11:1)
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Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen
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Knowledge, Belief, and Faith
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Knowledge - uncovered truth, conviction
Belief - not uncovered truth, doubt Faith - uncovered truth, conviction |
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Is theme of love in old testament?
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Yes
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Testament
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Literature in a written tradition governing the relation between God and his people
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Pentateuch
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means 5 books
Torah |
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Purpose of prophetic writings
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show people what happens when devotion to God falters
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J Account
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Yahewist
950-850 BC God has a personality, voice, seems like a person, loving, trusting, caring Intimate view of God Adam and Even Story (Chapter 2) |
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P Account
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Priestly
550-500BC 7 Days Story (Chapter 1) |
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4 Accounts
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Yahewist (J Account)
Elohist (E Account) Priestly (P Account) Deuteronomic (D Account) |
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What does the tree symbolize in the garden of Eden?
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the human urge to know everything as god knows
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What does the apple symbolize in the garden of Eden?
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desire to know what god knows
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Eden's sin of pride
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felt like she was entitled to know in the way that God knows
Over-inflated sense of self worth |
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What does the serpent symbolize in the garden of Eden?
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doubtful/cynical thoughts about whether or not God loves us as he says he does
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three criteria for healthy relationship with God
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love, faith, obedience
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Decalogue
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the ten commandments
designed to probe the motives of the human heart |
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Case law (conditional)
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eye for an eye
no commandments are case laws |
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Apodictic law (unconditional)
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there are no specific penalties for violating these laws
All commandments are Apodictic |
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2nd Super Commandment
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Lev 19:18
...you shall love your neighbor as yourself; I am the Lord |
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Yahweh
and the significance |
I Am
the name of God in Exodus Significance: concepts, names, labels are human inventions that are to needed to have a relationship with God |
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3rd Super Commandment
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Matthew 7:12
Do unto others as you would have other do unto you The Golden Rule |
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1st Super Commandment
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Deuteronomy 6:5
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might |
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Prophet
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Prophrates - to speak on behalf of another
prophets spoke on behalf of God |
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4 points prophets tried to communicate
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1. Wake us up to our injustices
2. Reason we are committing these is because of our crumbling faith 3. Failed in fulfilling our obligation to the underprivileged, marginalized, and the oppressed 4. Have become short-sighted |
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Prophets critique of Israelites
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we are leading lives that reveal that we pursue what is most immediately beneficial and pleasing to us
not pursuing our relationship to God Leaders of Israel are favoring military and political relationships over the relationship to God stop neglecting those in need not following commandments |
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Gospel
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Good word or good announcement, conveying sense of proclamation of how to be a Christian
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Eschatology
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the study of the eschaton, the kingdom of heaven
Eschaton – the divinely ordered climax of human history as we know it |
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Tanak
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Hebrew Bible
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Torah
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PentaTeuch
first 5 books of the Hebrew Bible Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy |
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Covenant
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a formal agreement between superior and inferior parties established by the superior party
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Scribes
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interpreters of the law
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Pharisees
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literally means, the ‘separated ones;’
this group of interpreters of the law responded to the threats of secularization (particularly by Roman influence by emphasizing the importance of carefully observing the law in daily affairs (e.g., the preparation of kosher foods strictly enforced). Of all the interpreters of the law during Jesus’s time, they had the widest influence (and they endorsed the notion of resurrection. |
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Sadducees
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wealthy aristocracy and priestly family who opposed the Pharisees, rejecting their notion of resurrection. The opposition was believed to be political.
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Diaspora
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Jewish persons and communities existing outside Palestine; often traveled to Jerusalem to fulfill sacrificial obligations
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Proselytes
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Gentiles who had converted to Judaism
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Synagogue
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roughly considered as places to meet, pray and study. They were not considered sacred places. The sacred place was and remained the temple in Jesus’s time.
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Apostles
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term refers to any persons who were missionaries of the gospel. Consider: St. Paul qualifies as an apostle, but he is not one of “the twelve” [disciples]. So, the “twelve” [disciples] are also apostles, but the apostles are not necessarily part of the “twelve.” We might, then, define disciples (in the sense of the “twelve”) as “apostles with a strict set of rules to follow while conducting their mission, e.g., they are not to take money or other compensatory provisions.
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Messiah
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anointed one
A bit vague because it only implies a special role given by God, and it was unclear if this was a political, prophetic, or priestly role (or something even other). The Hebrew, masiah is rendered christos in Greek and thus we get Jesus Christ (or, Jesus, the anointed one). |
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Son of Man
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Term almost exclusively restricted to the Gospels and therein to Jesus’s own speech, and it means something like a human being or someone. In the context of the gospels, the term implies that Jesus judges in the name of the heavenly God, that Jesus is a heavenly savior.
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Son of God
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not necessarily directly entailing Jesus’s divinity. Ironically, this term has more human overtones that Son of Man. It varies in its use from denoting Jesus’s obedience to God’s will, Jesus as chosen for a special relationship to God, or Jesus as God’s own son through Baptism, in which case all baptized Christians become sons and daughters of God.
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Lord
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expresses the relationship between Christians and Jesus. The term indicates that Christians considered Jesus an agent of God enjoying a divine status
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Purpose of Prophets
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remind Israelites that the covenant is not unilateral it is reciprocal
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Characteristics of Hosea
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Legal case against Israel
Divorce metaphor In the end he forgives just as Gomer is forgiven by Hosea |
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Characteristics of Isaiah
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1-39
40-55 2nd Isaiah 55-End 3rd Isaiah Increasing distance between Israelites and God Suffering servant passage |
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Jeremiah 31
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we are so far from God that we can't see his face
God will renew covenant with Israelites so that violation of commandments will not put us out of the sight of God |
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Theme of Job
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God doesn't just reward good people and punish bad people
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Differences between Athens and Jerusalem
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Reason vs. Faith
Plato and Aristotle - way to good life purely individual, your path to excellence depended on your own ability to reason, perfect own soul Bible - faith and loving God, we cant reach our highest end without relying on God, we are no longer self sufficient, introduces element of faith - have conviction without knowing complete uncovered truth |
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What does Moses' name mean?
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I drew him out of the water
significant because he was drawn out of the water when he was a baby and he drew Israelites out of the Red Sea |
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What is the difference between the old testament, torah, and tanak
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Old testament - hebrew bible with different order for christian bible
Torah - first 5 books of hebrew bible Tanak - hebrew bible |
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What is the difference between the P and J account?
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J (Yahewist) 950-850BC
God is very personable, loving intimate view of God P (Priestly) 550-500BC |
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God's confrontation with Pharoah
reason he hardens his heart reason for I AM |
the reason he hardens his heart to continue to demonstrate his power over Pharaoh, increasingly demonstrates his power, divine order of history and who int eh end will be the privileged people, God's way of evaluating isn't the world's way of evaluating
concepts, names, labels are human inventions that are not needed to have a relationship with god, all you need is faith in him |
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Israelites attitude while wandering
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complain that they were better in captivity than wandering
the lord always provides for them after they complain shows the Israelites utter dependence on God for their well-being |
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1st Commandment
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You shall have no gods before me
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2nd Commandment and its significance
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You shall have no false idols
doesn't want them to build another golden calf, says he is a jealous God not returning God's love provokes his jealousy |
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3rd Commandment
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you shall not make wrongful use of the name of God
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4th Commandment and significance
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Observe the sabbath day
everyone is equal on the sabbath just as everyone is equal in God's eyes reminder that we are created in God's image by resting on the 7th day takes away using people as means to an end like during the week |
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5th Commandment and significance
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Honor your mother and father
hinge commandment links the first 4 to the second 6 commandments by honoring your father on earth you are honoring your father in heaven your parents teach you how to follow the other commandments |
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Commandments 6-10 Significance
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Social rules
you could force yourself to follow these but not the first set because you cant force someone to love |
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The Golden Rule
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The Golden Rule Matthew 7:12
do unto others as you would have them do unto you |
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What are Christ's 4 manners of teaching
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1. Proverbs – describe way of human affairs as we know them by providing examples that help us see the world and ourselves in a new light
2. Judgments – Instances where Christ passes judgment on actions or saying 3. Parables – elaborate metaphors or analogies that end with exaggerated or unexpected conclusions, often end in a question and are designed to spark critical reflection of the reader, put burden of interpretation on the reader of the text 4. Miracles – doesn’t use it to define his authority, uses them to demonstrate the breaking apart of evil in human affairs |
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Important thing to take out of Christ's allusion to the cross
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give up material things that you think will make you happy in order to pursue god which will actually make you happy
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the difference between the P and J account and Plato's view of the soul's assent to the Good
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Plato – go toward the good which is impersonal, reason, no account of a creator, the good has no character
P/J account – going toward personal, god, creator, loving and faith bring you to God, God has a character |
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The difference between the three kinds of covenants
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apodictic covenant – no specific punishment for breaking covenant
unilateral – obligations only for superior reciprocal – everyone has responsibilities |
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Job's Fault
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Job’s fault is that he is more conventional than he is, he objects to his friends when they say he must have sinned, then Job charges God which looks like he is inverting Job’s friends inferences about Job, saying if he had done something wrong he should be punished because he is saying he didn’t do anything wrong and shouldn’t be punished, thinks the same way as his friends, Job and his friends both have a misunderstanding of justice
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Job's Merits
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stay righteous even after all the things that happen to him
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Christ's lifespan
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Christ born between 9-4 BC, died about 30 AD
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When was each gospel written?
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Gospel of Mark – 68-72 AD
Matthew and Luke – 85-90 AD (not same geographical location) John – 90-95 AD |
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What is the synoptic problem?
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how did the gospels share material with one another when they were being written?
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Triple Tradition
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enough passages in Matthew and Luke that are also in Mark that its safe to assume that when Matthew and Luke wrote their gospels they had Mark’s gospel by their side
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Double Tradition
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There are passages that Matthew and Luke share in common but Mark doesn’t contain at all. They hypothesize that because they didn’t write in the same geographical area there had to be another source of recorded material on the life and teaching of Christ that Matthew and Luke also had at their disposal. They call the source Q
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the significance of the genealogy at the beginning of Matthew
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Matthew is trying to show who Jesus Christ is and to attract a congregation
mentions women that aren’t Israelites in order to attract Gentiles and connection between Abraham and Christ to attract traditional followers of Judaism separation between Jesus and his parents showing his is the son of God |
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Jesus' reinterpretation of Judaic law
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Jesus amends the laws of Moses as understood by Pharisees/Scribes - law alone not sufficient to gain access to kingdom of heaven
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What prophet does Christ often refer to in the book of Matthew?
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Isaiah
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