Phil: Paragraph 8- Study
Posted on 04. Jun, 2009 by Jeremy in Study
In the Rabinnical teaching style, there is a technique that is regularly used. You see it with Jesus, Paul and every NT writer. It’s called a Remez- basically for our purposes it means, “I’m going to use a phrase or word from the OT to help build the context of my statement.” Many of you probably have some type of reference system in the middle or bottom of your bibles. Many times this shows the references from which the Remez[s]s are made. For an easy example, Jesus uses two when he says to the merchants in the temple courts in Luke 19:46, “It is written,” he said to them, ” ‘My house will be a house of prayer’ ; but you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’ Look up the references, it sets a very interesting context.
Paul does something very subtly, but most certainly understood by the readers in his first statement. “Yes, and I will continue to rejoice, 19 for I know that through your prayers and the help given by the Spirit of Jesus Christ, what has happened to me will turn out for my deliverance- Php 1:18-19.” This is a Remez from Job’s statement in Job 13:16, “Indeed, this will turn out for my deliverance.“ He is drawing from the plight and yet determination of Job to set the context and proper anticipation for his prayer warriors! Paul is saying, “Believe me, just as Job was vindicated, so will I be!”
Begin to search for the Remez context clues that are all through-out the NT.
