Prolepsis. Literally “flash-forward,” prolepsis is the anticipation of a thing before it appears, applied biblically as speech which tells of things as if they exist when they do not as yet, as with Paul of speaking of God in Romans 4:17; “whom [Abraham] believed–the God who gives life to the dead and calls things that are not as though they were.”
This anticipatory, prophetic speech was typified in Luke 22:19–20; Matthew 26:26–28; Mark 14:22–24; 1 Corinthians 11:23–25: “This is my body, which is broken for you. Do this in remembrance of me…” The present tense is used for a future event as if it had already been fulfilled. This is a great insight into a hermeneutical corruption from the refusal to allow the prophetic principle to determine overarching meaning. Christ is here not giving a religious rite for his remembrance and forgiveness of sin or is about remembrance of objects, events, and persons, but the prophetic revelation of himself and its particular faith for his remembrance and the forgiveness of a sin of through him.
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