19:6 as fulfilled in the church indicates that the church now continues the true Israel as the inheritor of God’s promises and as His covenant people, while unbelieving Jews are described not as true Jews but as a synagogue of Satan (2:9) Beale, G. K., & Campbell, D. H. [9] ...
(cf. Matt 3:9; Luke 3:8).111 Thus, for example, in later rabbinic thought Israel was already delivered from the mastery of the evil impulse112 or from the evil powers of the stars.113 Jewish people were born into the covenant by natural birth; requiring a second birth to enter it ...
It comes right in the middle of Christ’s famous response to his Jewish interlocutors accusing him of blasphemy because, “you, being a man, make yourself God” (v.33). To which Jesus replies, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I said, you are gods’? If he called them gods to ...