Πραγματεύσασθε ἐν ᾧ ἔρχομαι ("Make them yield until I come back") the Church's missionary mandate in light of the Parable of the mines (Lk 19:11-27)
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With the coming of Jesus Christ and his preaching: “the time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God approached the men;” so, time acquire strong eschatological meaning as the beginning of the end. The prospect of an immediate return of the Lord is present in the traditions that make up the Gospel of Mark (and Q) and is common in early Christian community, but Luke modifies it: the conclusion of human history is not going to happen. It is still needed a more consistent length of time, i.e. the time required for the Church founded by Christ to fulfill its mission to evangelize all people, calling them to convert themselves to the one God and Father. Thus, the third Evangelist tends to insert the eschatological perspective of the words of Jesus into an historical dimension. The attention directed to the Christian that is inserted in the world confirms the importance that the historical present has in Luke’s outlook. Thus, the contras between the kingdom of this world and the eschatological kingdom of Christ shows up. This kingdom is not from this world; nevertheless, it works in this world by means of the proclamation of the Gospel and the witness of the Christian community.
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