Caird, George
(On The Significance of A.D. 70)
"Jesus was called by God to be the agent of his purpose, and he himself had been sent to bring about that reformation without which Israel could not fulfill her national destiny. If the nation, so far from accepting that calling, rejected God's messenger and persecuted those who responded to his preaching, how could the assertion of God's sovereignty fail to include an open demonstration that Jesus was right and the nation was wrong? How could it fail to include the vindication of the persecuted and the cause they lived and died for?" (Jesus and the Jewish Nation, 20f.)
(On Mark 13:5-37 and the "Son of Man")
"Here, as in the book of Daniel, the coming of the Son of Man on the clouds of heaven was never conceived as a primitive form of space travel, but as a symbol for a mighty reversal of fortunes within history and at the national level. How odd of Mark, say the critics, to append to a question about a historical crisis a discourse which is an answer to a question about an eschatological crisis! But supposing Mark was right! Supposing the prediction of the coming of the Son of Man on the clouds of heaven really was an answer to the disciples' question about the date of the fall of Jerusalem! It is indeed credible that Jesus, the heir to the linguistic and theological riches of the prophets, and himself a greater theologian and master of imagery than them all, should ever have turned their symbols into flat and literal prose?" (Jesus and the Jewish Nation, 20-22)
(On Mark 13:14-19)
"more useful to a refugee from military invasion than to a man caught unawares by the last trumpet." (Jesus and the Jewish Nation, 21)
(On The Significance of Gospel Events)
"not only in theological truth but in historic fact, the one bore the sins of the many, confident that in him the whole Jewish nation was being nailed to the cross, only to come to life again in a better resurrection." (Jesus and the Jewish Nation, 22)
"the disciples were not evangelistic preachers sent out to save individual souls for some unearthly paradise. They were couriers procaliming a national emergency and conducting a referendum on a question of national survival." (New Testament Theology, 361)
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