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Here are just a couple concluding thoughts. When reading the book, I was
often tempted to think “magnum opus”. For someone who has recently
passed the age in which he could retire, he (thankfully and most certainly)
has not been resting on his laurels. Dr Scaer is committed to what has been
laid down in the Scriptures, but is willing to stretch our minds to new and
different, yet still biblical and confessional perspectives. I hope to see still
more excellent things on paper from this friend regarding our mutual
“friend”, Matthew.
Few people, when given the opportunity to depart this life, will leave
either a son to carry on the family tradition or a substantial book which was
widely influential. With son, Peter Scaer, and with this book, Discourses in
Matthew, David P. Scaer has accomplished both, is certainly doubly blessed,
and the Church has been doubly blessed through him.
Rev. Paul D. Landgraf, S.T.M., is pastor of Good Shepherd Lutheran
Church, Coventry, England.