The sermon by Jonathan Edwards proposes the Bible verse, “ Matthew 16:17 - And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven,” then proceeds to discuss how exactly God demonstrates his Divine and Supernatural Light through instances such as this excerpt from the book of Matthew.
It is particularly interesting when Edwards goes into speaking about how such poor, illiterate fishermen were able to decipher God’s message, assure their faith, and pronounce that this man was the Son of God in this one simple instance, because it was God’s plan to reveal it to them. He makes it clear that it is not logical for men to reach Divine Wisdom or see the Divine Light by their own ways. He simply says that God has to reveal it to them, as demonstrated through this excerpt, “…but Peter had declared his assured faith, that he was the Son of God. Now it was natural to observe, how it was not flesh and blood that had revealed it to him.”
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Zach,
This post is almost all summary. Next time I want to see much more analysis of the text. You pointed out an important issue in the text, the contrast between the learnedness of the Scribes and the spiritual knowledge of the illiterate fishermen. Why was that interesting to you? What was surprising about it? How does it relate to Edwards' style and language?
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