Furthermore, a close study of the text nowhere suggests that the stone of the tomb was rolled away from the tomb to let Jesus out. The earthquake and rolling back of the stone recorded in Matthew (28:2) as a sign of a wonderful event, not as the event itself. There can be only one conclusion: the body of Jesus was gone before the stone was rolled away. It did not need to be removed for Him to escape the tomb; He had already escaped it. The removal of the stone was for the disciples, not for Jesus.
— George Eldon Ladd (1911–1982), Professor für Neues Testament und Theologe
Related Bible passage: MAT.28.2
Topics: Eternity & Hope Beyond Death, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit
Occasions: The Church Year
George Eldon Ladd
George Eldon Ladd (1911–1982) war ein US-amerikanischer baptistischer Theologe und lehrte von 1950 bis 1980 als Professor für Neues Testament am Fuller Theological Seminary in Kalifornien. Er prägte im evangelikalen Raum das Konzept der inaugurierten Eschatologie, die das Reich Gottes als „schon jetzt, aber noch nicht vollendet“ versteht, und grenzte sich dabei scharf vom Dispensationalismus ab. Für Bibelleser bietet seine heilsgeschichtliche Theologie bis heute ein weit verbreitetes exegetisches Referenzmodell zum Verständnis neutestamentlicher Reich-Gottes-Texte.
All quotes by George Eldon Ladd (12)
I ask myself: what does hell mean? I maintain: it is the inability to love.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
God has put eternity into our hearts and filled it with longing.
John Piper
C.S. Lewis
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
Jim Elliot
Martin Luther King Jr.
Whoever knows Easter cannot despair.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Helmut Thielicke
Charles Haddon Spurgeon