Exposition of Matthew 5:43-48 (2)

In this essay we will try to say something construc­tive about the seemingly knotty exegetical question of what is meant by Jesus, when He says "became He causes His sun to rise on evil and good and rains upon just and unjust". It should be kept very sharply before our minds that the subject that Jesus is here bringing to the foreground is these verses is not God's providential acts in creation and nature, but that He is most em­phatically speaking of the righteousness of the King­dom of...