NT Allusions to the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha

 

JUBILEES

 

 1.      1.23:  But after this they will return to me in all uprighteousness and with all of (their) heart and soul.  And I shall cut off the foreskin of their heart and the foreskin of the heart of their descendants.  And I shall create for them a holy spirit, and I shall purify them so that they will not turn away from following me from that day and forever.

          Rom 2.29: Rather, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly, and real circumcision is a matter of the heart—it is spiritual and not literal. Such a person receives praise not from others but from God.

 2.      2.19:  And he said to us, “Behold I shall separate for myself a people from among all the nations.  And they will also keep the sabbath.  And I will sanctify them for myself, and I will bless them.  Just as I have sanctified and shall sanctify the sabbath day for myself thus shall I bless them.  And they will be my people and I will be their God.

          Rom 9.24: including us whom he has called, not from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles?

 3.      19.21, etc.:  Let your hands be strong and let your heart rejoice in your son, Jacob.  Because I love him more than all of my sons.  He will be blessed forever and his seed will be one which fills all of the earth.

          Rom 4.13: For the promise that he would inherit the world did not come to Abraham or to his descendants through the law but through the righteousness of faith.