tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829387754982675014.post6386441786099630552..comments2023-09-08T08:37:05.568-07:00Comments on here you will find my mathoms: further silencing of the silent treatmentcontrarian 78http://www.blogger.com/profile/06104559106619389825noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829387754982675014.post-77255282451685883522008-09-17T08:04:00.000-07:002008-09-17T08:04:00.000-07:00What's also fascinating about "the seat o...What's also fascinating about "the seat of Moses" comment is that (as Hahn points out) it demonstrates an authoritative oral tradition in the OT era. There is *scriptural* antecedent to Our Lord's reference to "the seat of Moses" as a metaphor/name for the teaching authority of the leaders of the people of Isreal. Yet Our Lord and all his listeners knew exactly to what he was referring. So there must have been an authoritative (since it was off-handedly confirmed by the Son of God), traditional, uninscripturated understanding of that phrase and its meaning. It must have been a "development of doctrine" within the community during the OT era. (As I vaguely recall Hahn gives other examples of this kind of thing in the NT, such as Our Lord quoting a Patriarch or Profit as saying something that is not found anywhere in the OT.)Mark Rylandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01442625580770902584noreply@blogger.com