Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Jew-Gentile Relations in the OT

But the gracious and compassionate behaviour of individual Israelites toward individual Gentiles is never optional, and its violation entails a variety of punishments (Exod. 22:23; Deut. 14:29; 24:19). This individual-corporate distinction which applies to both Israelites and Gentiles, appears consistently throughout the OT and eventually becomes part of the NT's elimination of the ethnically based corporate distinction between the two groups.

--Daniel C. Timmer, A Gracious and Compassionate God: Mission, Salvation and Spirituality in the Book of Jonah (New Studies in Biblical Theology; Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2011), 27-28.

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