J. V. Fesko
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And then third and finally, we'll set forth the basic parameters of the doctrine.
So a brief historical overview of its historical origins.
We'll look at
its scriptural foundations and then we'll set forth the doctrine.
So let's first take a little examination here to look at the historical origins of the covenant of redemption.
And that sometimes first impressions can be misleading, but upon closer examination things can become clearer, and I think such is the case with the historical origins of the covenant of redemption.
Some people might think as you're reading the history of theology and you say, you know, I don't see people speaking of the covenant of redemption until the sixteenth century.
Does this mean that the church fathers and the medievals did not speak of this covenant?
We can say that in terms of the terminology itself, covenant of redemption, okay, no, they didn't speak in that specific way.
But we can say that they did speak of this covenant in other ways, in material ways, we can say that they spoke of pieces of this covenant.
The Church Fathers, for example, read the Gospels and in particular the Gospel of John, where Jesus says in John fourteen twenty eight, The Father is greater than I.
Or John chapter seventeen, verse four, I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do.
Well, in what way is the father greater than the son?
And when did the father give a work for the son to do?
There's no recorded historical instance, for example, of when the Father says here in the Gospels, I'm going to give you a work to do.
So the church fathers and theologians of the Middle Ages uh discussed these various passages of Scripture as they pondered these particular questions.
And it's here where they're dealing with the substance, if you will, of what we now call the covenant of redemption.
In addition to this, we can say that theologians in the Middle Ages settled on using the Vulgate, which was the Latin translation of the scriptures.
And in particular, there's one passage of Scripture that comes to us from the Gospel of Luke, chapter 22, verse 29, that translates the original Greek in the following way: where Jesus says to his disciples, I appoint
to you a kingdom as my father has appointed to me a kingdom.
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