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George E. Ladd

George E. Ladd

      George Eldon Ladd was a Baptist minister and professor of New Testament exegesis and theology at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California.

      Ladd was ordained in 1933 and pastored in New England from 1936 to 1945. He served as an instructor at Gordon College of Theology and Missions (now Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary), Wenham, Massachusetts from 1942–45. He was an associate professor of New Testament and Greek from 1946–50, and head of the department of New Testament from 1946–49. In 1950–52 he was an associate professor at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, Calif, becoming professor of biblical theology in 1952.

      Ladd's best-known work, A Theology of the New Testament, has been used by thousands of seminary students since its publication in 1974. This work was enhanced and updated by Donald A. Hagner in 1993.

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The apocalypses use highly symbolic language to describe a series of events in history; and the main concern of apocalyptic is the end of the age and the establishment of God's kingdom.
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We find on the contrary that the millennial reign of Christ will be the manifestation in history of the lordship and sovereignty which is his already.
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Ladd understands ezesan in verses 4 and 5 as meaning bodily resurrection in both instances. In support of this interpretation he points to two other passages in the book of Revelation whereezesan has this meaning: 2:8 and 13:14.
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God's plan of salvation for a lost world was that he would provide a Redeemer through whose life and death redemption would be worked out.
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