vol. 35, Issue #1

Online Journal Article: "THE KINGDOM OF GOD IN THE TEACHING OF JESUS" G. R. BEASLEY-MURRAY* JETS 35/1 (March 1992) 19-30

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"THE KINGDOM OF GOD IN THE TEACHING OF JESUS"
G. R. BEASLEY-MURRAY*
JETS 35/1 (March 1992) 19-30

Excerpt:
The fundamental meaning of the terms for "kingdom" in Hebrew
(malkut), Aramaic (jnalku) and Greek (basileia) is the same—namely, kingship or sovereignty. Curiously enough, the same is true of the English word "kingdom." Its primary meaning is the authority and power of a king, not
the country ruled or the people ruled by a king. The Oxford English Dictionary quotes a statement of Hobbes in the seventeenth century, in which he defined monarchy as a form of government "which, if he limit it by law, is
called Kingdom; if by his own will, Tyranny." Kingdom thus is viewed as the
lawful exercise of royal power, as over against tyranny, the unjust use of
such authority. That is in accord with its meaning in the Bible.
--from page 1 of the article