Leiva comments on the Greek text, demonstrating nuances in the text that defy translation. The goal of the book is to help the reader experience the heat of the divine heart and the light of the divine Word. The tone is very much of taste and see how good the Lord is and an invitation of friend, come up higher!. Leiva's work is scholarly but eminently approachable by the lay reader. Each short meditation comments on a verse or two, pointing to some facet of the text not immediately apparent, but rich with meaning. The lay reader can derive great profit from reading this. In his third volume of meditations on Matthew (chapters 19-25), Erasmo Leiva continues to show Matthew's prose to be not terse so much as economical-astoundingly so given its depth. Matthew's gospel can seem a terse narrative, almost a historical document and not the tremendously spiritual (and doctrinal) storehouse that it is.
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