by admin | May 27, 2012 | Adultery in the Law, Section One, Sexual Immorality
The translators of the New American Bible1 chose the marriage is unlawful for πορνεία in Matthew 5:32 [Table]. So I will substitute that translation in the NET: But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except for the marriage is unlawful, makes her...
by admin | May 26, 2012 | Adultery in the Law, Section One, Sexual Immorality
I first entertained the idea that πορνεία in the New Testament might be defined by Leviticus 20:11-21 because of the similarity in word order between Matthew 15:19 (NET) and the Law in Exodus 20:2-17 (NET) Exodus 20:2-17 (NET) Matthew 15:19 (NET) “I, the Lord, am your...
by admin | May 25, 2012 | Adultery in the Law, Section One, Sexual Immorality
I want to study the background information in the Old Testament to see if I can understand what Jesus, Paul and the New Testament writers meant by πορνεία. Since I’m treating πορνεία like the unknown X, I’ll track the Hebrew word נָאַף (nā’ap̄), equivalent to...
by admin | May 19, 2012 | Section One, Sexual Immorality
Since I am uncomfortable with immorality as potentially too broad a translation of πορνεία I’ll treat it like an unknown X. So if I remove X from the equations so to speak I get a clearer view of Jesus’ meaning without X. I might even gain some insight into ways to...
by admin | May 18, 2012 | Section One, Sexual Immorality
Perhaps this is as good a time as any to say that I take it for granted that Jesus spoke Greek, and that those who heard him understood him perfectly well in what was by then, more than three centuries after the conquest of Alexander the Great, their native tongue. ...
by admin | May 15, 2012 | Forgiveness, Introduction
Jesus gave his disciples the following rule (Matthew 10:32, 33 NET): Whoever, then, acknowledges (ὁμολογήσει, a form of ὁμολογέω) me before people, I will acknowledge (ὁμολογήσω, another form of ὁμολογέω) before my Father in heaven.1 But whoever denies (ἀρνήσηται, a...