Tuesday, August 1, 2023

Robert Charles Branden: Sensus Plenior as the explanation for much of Matthew's Use of the Old Testament

  

Here one is faced with the complexities of Matthew’s use of the Old Testament. Matthew is unique in his ten fulfillment quotations which include 2:15. I think it best to view Matthew’s use of the Old Testament in the sense of sensus plenior. In this view, the full extent of meaning in the Old Testament text in question was not completely understood by the original human author. The full extent of meaning is now detectable in light of new revelatory fulfillment in Christ and the new day of salvation history realized in Him. (Robert Charles Branden, Satanic Conflict and the Plot of Matthew [Studies in Biblical Literature 89; New York: Peter Lang, 2006], 71 n. 26)