Divine Mercy: The Heart of the Gospel

Saint Luke: The Gospel of Divine Mercy 41 Footnotes 1 Pope John Paul II, Dives in Misericordia, (Boston, MA: St. Paul Editions; 1980), p. 13. 2 Sister M. Faustina Kowalska, Divine Mercy in My Soul, Diary, entry no. 965, (Stockbridge, MA: Marian Press, 1987), p. 374. 3 Ibid., entry no. 83, p. 42. 4 Ibid., entry no. 429, p. 190. 5 Ibid., entry no. 1588, p. 565. 6 Burton H. Throckmorton, Jr., Gospel Parallels: A Synopsis o f the First Three Gospels, (New York, NY: Thomas Nelson, Inc., 1973). 7 Raymond E. Brown, S. S., Joseph A. Fitzmyer, S. J., Roland E. Murphy, O. Carm., editors, The Jerome Biblical Commentary, volume II, “Synoptic Problem,” (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice- Hall, 1968), p. 2. 8 The Gospel of St. John does allude to the author’s purpose at the end of the Gospel (John 20: 30-31). 9 The New Jerusalem Bible, (New York, NY: Doubleday, 1985), p. 1686. i° Ibid., p. 1798. 11 Ibid., footnote a , p. 1687. 12 Joel B. Green, Scot McKnight, I. Howard Marshall, editors, Dictionary o f Jesus and the Gospels, “Old Testament in the Gospels,” (Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, 1992), p. 586. 13 Pope John Paul II, op. cit., p. 21. 14 A key to what Luke understood and avoided begins to become appar­ ent with this quote: “In the LXX the noun eleos is normally used for the Hebrew hesed which has to do with the attitude of a human or a God arising out of a mutual relationship.... Less frequently (six times), eleos, is used in the LXX for the Hebrew rahaamin (as is oiktirmoi, etc.), ... .” Green, McKnight, Marshall, op. cit., p. 541-542. 15 Numbers in parentheses after Hebrew and Greek words are from Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance o f the Bible. 16 Father Oscar Lukefahr, C.M., A Catholic Guide to the Bible, (Liguori, MO: Liguori Press, 1992), p. 11. 17 The two tenses are: 1} A perfect tense used for the present tense, and, 2} An imperfect tense used both for the imperfect and the future. (If a prophet writes using this tense there is a translator’s problem to deter-