Justin Taylor overviews an article by Dane Ortlund from the latest issue of Journal of the Evangelical Theological society (December 2010) entitled “‘And Their Eyes Were Opened, and They Knew’: An Inter-canonical Note on Luke 24:31” (pp. 717-728).
Ortlund’s overview:
The purpose of this article is to suggest that Luke 24:31 alludes to Genesis 3:7 in the shared statement “and their eyes were opened, and they knew.” When Adam and Eve were offered food by the serpent and ate, their eyes were opened and they knew good and evil. When the two disciples on the Emmaus road were offered food by the risen Jesus and ate, their eyes too were opened and they knew who their traveling companion was, that he had been raised, and that he was the focal point of all the Scriptures.
Ortlund notes that the suggested link has not been widely observed in the history of biblical interpretation, but proceeds to make his case in some depth noting twelve similarities between the two narratives and touching on other linguistic and theological areas.
Ortlund’s article.
Taylor’s overview.
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