How can I make this kind of search?
I would like to find out if the word “hyperbole” is used in connection with Matt 8:10. I mean if some of the authors interpret the saying of Jesus in this verse as a hyperbole. How can I search for it?
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I would use a Milestone search - where we can search for particular words within resources tagged as relating to a biblical passage. So:
hyperbole WITHIN {Milestone <Matt 8:10>}
I just get one result for this:
This will only find results tagged with Bible verse ranges - such as commentaries. More generally we can search for when the word appears near a reference to the verse:
hyperbole NEAR <Matt 8:10>
I don't have any matching resources but there is at least one in the Logos store
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{Milestone <Bible ~ Matthew 8:10>} INTERSECT Hyperbole and got 2 hits out of 515 that included Matthew.
Verses 7–10. And Jesus saith unto him, I will come and heal him, &c.—The benevolent promptitude with which our Lord yields to the centurion’s request, is the first circumstance to be noted in the narration; the second is the humility of the centurion himself, joined with his singular faith. Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof; but only speak the word, ειπε λογω, which is the reading adopted by Wetstein and others, on the authority of many MSS., and some of the versions; command by a word, and my servant shall be healed. But it is chiefly in the reason which the centurion assigns, in urging that it was unnecessary for Christ to go to his house, that the peculiar clearness of this pious soldier’s views, and the strength of his confidence, are particularly manifested. For I am a man under authority, &c.; the sense of which is, For though I myself am A MAN, and SUBORDINATE to others, being under the authority of Cesar and my superior officers, yet having soldiers under me, I say to one, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; obeying my word with instant promptitude and entire subjection: how much more shall all diseases, and therefore all natural things whatever, obey thee, who hast SUPREME AUTHORITY and ABSOLUTE POWER in thyself! That this man must have had some highly superior glimpses of the Divinity of Christ must be supposed, to account for this language. It was not the hyperbolical language of an oriental, for he was a Roman; and that it was not the language of compliment is certain from his having a faith in Christ corresponding to it; a faith at which our Lord marvelled, and which he declared so great that he had not found a faith equal to it in Israel. He was surely taught of God, and to him had already been given, in some considerable degree, “a revelation of the mystery of Christ,” which had not been made to others. He considered our Lord as possessed in himself of more than human power; and a steady view and firm belief of that fact was the foundation of his absolute trust.
Richard Watson, An Exposition of the Gospels of St. Matthew and St. Mark, and of Some Other Detached Parts of Holy Scripture (New York: George Lane & Levi Scott, 1852), 93–94.
Matthew furthers this emphasis by including words of Jesus about a reversal of expectation regarding kingdom inclusion (8:11–12).7 While the language of coming from east and west derives from OT references to Israel’s return from exile (e.g., Ps 107:3; Isa 43:5; Zech 8:7), Matthew expands its referent to signal gentile inclusion in the eschatological banquet (e.g., Isa 25:6–8). Ironically, the “heirs of the kingdom” will be excluded. This phrase cannot refer to all Jews, as Matthew clearly portrays many Jewish people responding to Jesus’s message favorably, including his own disciples. Likely, this is an example of Jesus’s frequent use of hyperbole to signal the seriousness of his message and to effect change in his hearers. Matthew’s Jesus predicts an unexpected future scenario of significant gentile inclusion coupled with partial Jewish exclusion.
Jeannine K. Brown and Kyle Roberts, Matthew, ed. Joel B. Green, The Two Horizons New Testament Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2018), 85.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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