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Originally Posted by aron
Evidently the "God's economy"... metric allows one to... hold up scripture to the theory, and whatever scripture doesn't support it gets set aside as unprofitable.
And look what gets set aside. In Psalm 34, all the discourse on the ways of the righteous man is discarded as irrelevant. Who is righteous? asks Lee. Nobody. Then, suddenly, in verse 20, there is a righteous man! One whose bones are not broken. Can't be discarded because it's quoted in the N.T. So that is a revelation of Jesus.
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Lee was in a conundrum, it seems. He thinks "the things which were written" are beneath his "high peak" standard. Yet they were held by the writers of the NT as indicative of the coming Christ. So he allows the bare minimum, that which is cited by NT authors (and even some of that is discarded, as in Peter & James' citation of "all flesh is like grass that withers and passes away").
So you get the obligatory citations, with all due reverence. And anything else is waved off. Do you suppose that ONLY those Psalms cited in the gospels and epistles, with the accompanying "as the scripture had said", were fulfilled by Jesus? Do you see any composer of the NT, or their near contemporaries, limiting scripture thus? No. Then along comes Lee with his supposedly divine measuring stick and slams the door shut. If his metric says something is "low" or "fallen", so it is, says Lee. But I am increasingly convinced that his metric is what is low, natural, and fallen.
When John wrote "To those who sold doves he said, “Get these out of here! Stop turning my Father’s house into a market!” 17 His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for your house will consume me.” (John 2:16,17), do you think that only that verse reveals Jesus? Had John been doing an exhaustive, systematic survey of the OT and had told us expressly "do not go beyond this" I would have to at least consider it from the Lord. But John did not, nor did any other (that I am aware of), and I would even argue that John's brief citation here, early in the account of Jesus' life and work, would suggest a rather open-ended approach to dealing with the OT and Jesus.
And Lee did, actually: finding "types and figures" right and left. But when it came to the Psalms, the skies turned to brass. The heavens closed. No revelations beyond what was necessitated by the NT. And even some of that didn't make it past Lee's measure.