Day 7 - Sabbath - Saturday - Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament - Logos

 Matthew 25:1–46

God is already depicted as a bridegroom, as in the parable of the Ten Bridesmaids (Matt. 25:1–13), in OT texts such as Isa. 54:4–6; Ezek. 16:8, 45; and Hos. 2:19. We may speak of this as a stock metaphor, as Jesus frequently drew on for his parables (see Blomberg 1990b: 37). The motif of the delay of the end was one that Jews had wrestled with since the eighth-century BC, as numerous writing prophets had declared the day of the Lord to be at hand (see Bauckham 1980). The parable of the Talents (25:14–30) may faintly echo Prov. 9:9, esp. in 25:29, on the wise gaining more wisdom. The sheep and the goats (25:31–46) may allude in 25:31 to Deut. 33:2 LXX, which speaks of the Lord shining forth with angels with him at his right hand. Or perhaps Zech. 14:5 is in mind, in which the Lord comes with all the holy ones accompanying him. The separation of sheep from goats in 25:32 may allude to Ezek. 34:17–19. Verses 35–36 probably allude to Isa. 58:7, with its reference to the kind of fast that the Lord has chosen: to share food with the hungry, provide the wanderer with shelter, and clothe the naked. The departure of the people of the nations at the final judgment into eternal punishment or eternal life (25:46) builds on the conceptual background of the resurrection of just and unjust to everlasting life and everlasting contempt, respectively, in Dan. 12:2.

OT Old Testament

esp. especially

LXX Septuagint

 Blomberg, Craig L. “Matthew.” Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament. Grand Rapids, MI;  Nottingham, UK: Baker Academic;  Apollos, 2007. 90. Print.