caa a22 4500 38636219X CHVBK 20180307111919.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198904 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0028688500024644 doi S0028688500024644 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0028688500024644 Goldsmith Dale McPherson Kansas, U.S.A ‘Ask, and it will be Given ...' Toward Writing the History of a Logion [Elektronische Daten] [Dale Goldsmith] SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS: We have attempted to indicate that the ask-logion of Matthew 7. 7a, 8a is an independent saying (probably of Jesus himself) which originally called for or described a response within the context of the earliest, eschatological preaching of the Kingdom of God. The uncontrolled and volatile possibilities inherent in this independent saying led the church to begin a process of ‘definition' of the saying. In this process the context in which the saying is found changes and often its form undergoes changes in order to bring the saying within the church's understanding of what was possible and permissible. The pressures of the ecclesiastical and the eschatological ethical traditions are both present in the Matthean version. A very sketchy suggestion (arising from our study) for the plotting of this development is offered in the accompanying diagram. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 New Testament Studies Cambridge University Press 35/2(1989-04), 254-265 0028-6885 35:2<254 1989 35 NTS https://doi.org/10.1017/S0028688500024644 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0028688500024644 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Goldsmith Dale McPherson Kansas, U.S.A NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- New Testament Studies Cambridge University Press 35/2(1989-04), 254-265 0028-6885 35:2<254 1989 35 NTS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge