Refuting Bradley Campbell's "My Top 7 Go-To Verses for Talking to Mormons"
On Matt 13, here are my notes that I referenced:
Johann Albrecht Bengel (1687-1752) on Matthew 13:53
v. 53. ἐτέλεσεν, absolvit)
Hae parabolae orbem quendam et systema conficiunt. sic, absolvit: c. 11,
1. implevit. Luc. 7, 1. Ostenditur autem per eas, praeter communem
conditionem ecclesiae N. T. specialior ratio futurorum eventuum. conf. not. ad v. 3. et
ad Joh. 16, 13. — μετῆρεν, migravit) (Johann Albrecht Bengel, Gnomon
Novi Testamenti [3d ed.; Tübingen:
Sumtibus Ludov. Frid. Fues., 1855], 88)
v. 53. ἐτέλεσεν, finished) These parables constitute a certain circle
and system. Thus, finished: ch. 11:1; fulfilled, Luke 7:1.
Through them, however, there is shown, beyond the general condition of the New
Testament Church, a
more particular account of future events. Compare the note on v. 3
and on John 16:13. — μετῆρεν, departed)
Ver. 24. παρέθηκεν, again in ver.
31, usually of food, here of parable as a mental entertainment; used with
reference to laws in Ex. 21:1, Deut. 4:44.—ὡμοιώθη, aorist used
proleptically for the future . . . (Alexander Balmain Bruce, “The Synoptic
Gospels,” in The Expositor's Greek Testament, ed. W. Robertson Nicoll, 5
vols. [New York: George H. Doran Company, n.d.], 1:199)
Bruce supplies independent evidence that a competent 19th-century
New Testament exegete could understand the parable as Jesus predicting a
subsequent historical condition rather than merely describing an
already-existing reality.
Henry Alford (1810-1871) as a hostile witness to such:
We must not, as Stier well
remarks, seek with Bengel, al., minutely to apportion the series prophetically,
to various historical periods: those who have done so (see Trench, p. 142, edn.
4) have shewn caprice and inconsistency . . . (Henry Alford, Alford’s Greek Testament: An Exegetical and
Critical Commentary, 4 vols. [Grand Rapids, Mich.: Guardian Press, 1976],
1:151)
