Don Preston and Matthew 16:27-28 (Conclusion)

[charlesrapostle12]

Love the video very informative.

[Bibletouchstone]

A friend recently mentioned about a possible object that that could be raised re the usage of the word “requital” in Isaiah 59:18, “reward” in Romans 2:6, carry enough similarity to Matthew 16:27 to interpret reward as including “judgment” in Matthew 16:27.

[Bibletouchstone]

@Bibletouchstone However, these texts do indeed have a different central theme than the verse in Matthew, Isaiah 40, and 62. The accusative singular feminine “praxin” of Matthew 16:27 when contrasted from the accusative plural masculine “erga” of Romans 2:6 shows a distinction between the Christian practice of the believer with the wages of the rest of mankind’s work. It is not that Christ does not judge the wicked from His throne—He certainly does!

[Bibletouchstone]

@Bibletouchstone However, the judgment part (spoken of clearly in texts like Isaiah 59:18, Romans 2:6, etc.) is not directly correlated with the participle “coming” (of Matthew 16:28), a verbal modifying the accusative.

[Bibletouchstone]

@Bibletouchstone Preston would have to grammatically show that the judgment is limited to the time whereby some of the disciples would live to see the ends thereof. However, the grammatical and syntactic structure restricts their “seeing” of the direct object’s state of being [at the right hand of God] to be realized before they die—not all the rewarding.

[Bibletouchstone]

@Bibletouchstone This is central to the issue because Preston aims to make a direct correlation between judgment being exhausted and the lifetime of the disciples. However, exegetically, this is not possible—which is why Preston must abstract whole verses, stripping them of their grammatical form and contextual relevance, and isolate them into parallel events to make undue inferences from.