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1 | When did the curtain rip? | Luke 23:45 | DocTrinsograce | 170955 | ||
Dear Luv, I've never attempted a harmonization of the Gospels at the point, so take this with a grain of salt. Without delving into the matter, studying the texts themselves, or consulting dependable scholars, I'd still be willing to venture an qualified if not entirely definitive answer. Luke was much more concerned with chronology than the other Gospel writers. He states as much in his introduction to his Gospel (Luke 1:1-4). His narrative style presupposes Greek thinking much more so than the other writers. Herodotus and Thucydides influence on chronological thinking had pretty much pervaded the Greek world. That's also where we get it from. Other peoples, surprisingly enough, do not think chronologically; instead, they tend to interrelate events by their significance. So, given nothing else to go on, when answering the question of the chronological relationship to the two events of the tearing of the veil and Christ's death, I'd certainly lean toward Luke's rendering of the events. In particular, Matthew was not concerned with the kind of chronology that you and I take for granted. Regardless, the literary mechanism of relating history through "meanwhile back at the ranch" is not an easy one. But we must not imagine that our presuppositions are the only way to look at the world. We are also products of our culture and heritage. In Him, Doc |
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2 | When did the curtain rip? | Luke 23:45 | LuvHisWurds | 171002 | ||
Thank you for a well thought out answer. Please see my response to CDBJ's question. I think it may have answered my own. | ||||||