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Whom to Fear

Data

(1a) 1Q: Luke 12:4-5 = Matt 10:28
(1b) 2 Clem 5:4b

 

Texts

(1a) 1Q: Luke 12:4-5 = Matt 10:28

/12:4/ "I tell you, my friends, do not fear those who kill the body, and after that can do nothing more. /5/ But I will warn you whom to fear: fear him who, after he has killed, has authority to cast into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him!

= Matt 10:28
/10:28/ Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

 

(1b) 2 Clem 5:4b

/5:1/Wherefore brethren, let us forsake our sojourning in this world, and do the will of him who called us, and let us not fear to go forth from this world, /2/ for the Lord said, "Ye shall be as lambs in the midst of wolves," /3/ and Peter answered and said to him, "if then the wolves tear the lambs?" /4/ Jesus said to Peter, " Let the lambs have no fear of the wolves after their death; and do ye have no fear of those that slay you, and can do nothing more to you, but fear him who after your death hath power over body and soul, to cast them into the flames of hell." [Sayings Parallels]

 

Notes

Lectionary

RCL:
ECUSA: & RC:

advanceWord:

John Dominic Crossan

Item: 158
Stratum: I (30-60 CE)
Attestation:
Single
Historicity: -

 
 

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