12-28-2008, 10:55 PM
Stephen Silver Wrote:Shlama:
The phrase "in my name" is simply "power of attorney". When a lawyer or a notary is given signing authority he is endowed with the authority to carry out the will of the CEO to make executive decisions.
Shlama,
Stephen
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So, how might this apply to matthew 18:5?
Was Jesus giving people the power of attorney to receive children?
I suspect the OP makes a good point. It seems to be so me sort of idiom I think.
Does Matthew chapter 10 read literally "in the name of a disciple"?
If so that passage seems, to me, to indicate something like "in my way".
There seems a suggestion, in Matt 10, that it relates to the/a quality of the person.