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POVERTY – A CONSTITUTIVE MARK OF THE MATTHEAN DISCIPLESHIP IN A PARADOXICAL PRESENTATION

Summary/Abstract: Poverty – a Constitutive Mark of the Matthean Discipleship in a Paradoxical Presentation. The purpose of this article is to notice the footprints of a publican in the Gospel of Matthew, to answer the question if the money does matter in this Gospel and to remark the ingenuity use of the technical term for a better understanding of the Gospel. To develop this topic I have divided my article in three chapters: 1. Matthew’s position in regard to the tax collectors. 2. The term “money” as it is technically understood in Matthew’s Gospel 3. The exposure of rules about poverty in Matthew 10 In the first chapter I attempted to point out the image that Matthew has over the taxcollectors by stressing his collecting to Christ and the impressive attitude of the apostle; this is the paradigm of the Matthean apostolate. In the second chapter, I have presented the various terms that Matthew uses for money which denote a very good knowledge of this subject due to his former profession. Finally, in the third chapter, I have attempted to analyze from an exegetical and theological point of view the rules in regard to poverty as it is seen in the tenth chapter of Matthew’s Gospel.

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