It is now part of their missionary preaching and baptismal instruction. There are however also a few scattered kingdom instructions addressed to the members of the Christian community, i.e., not missionary in character. The tradents emphasize different aspects depending upon their cultural backgrounds. Palestinian Jewish Christian tradents transmit apocalyptic ideas about the reversal of earthly relations and about the inbreaking or drawing near of the kingdom of God. Hellenistic Christians on the other hand stress the ethical dimension of the kingdom in their missionary preaching and baptismal instruction.
Apocalyptic ideas play no role in their preaching.
But Wolff pushes them to an extreme degree. He is either a razor-sharp analyst or the builder of a fragile house of cards. It is doubtful that the analytic tools he uses can bear all the weight he places on them. In art this may due to his not taking sufficiently seriously the warnings of E. J. Bickerman and Martin Hengel about the Hellenization of Palestine in the period under consideration. In part also it may be due to his relative neglect of redaction criticism.