by admin | Dec 4, 2016 | Paul's Religious Mind, Section Three
Here are two different descriptions Paul wrote of himself, separated by an affliction. Before the Affliction The Affliction After the Affliction “All things are lawful for me” – but I will not be controlled by anything. 1 Corinthians 6:12b (NET) For we do not want you...
by admin | Nov 28, 2016 | Deuteronomy, Section Three, The Fear of the Lord
Then we left Horeb, Moses said, and passed through all that immense, forbidding (yârêʼ, והנורא) wilderness that you saw on the way to the Amorite hill country as the Lord our God had commanded us to do, finally arriving at Kadesh Barnea.[1] The word forbidding gives...
by admin | Nov 22, 2016 | Chapter 15, Romans, Section Three
But we who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak, and not just please ourselves.[1] I assume that the weak (ἀδυνάτων, a form of ἀδύνατος) referred back to the one who is weak in the faith (ἀσθενοῦντα [a form of ἀσθενέω] τῇ πίστει). The weak person...
by admin | Nov 18, 2016 | Section Three, Sexual Immorality
The exercise of revisiting Paul’s Religious Mind and the meaning of Sexual Immorality has clarified a few things that were right in front of me all along. I considered again the list of sins that described the former lives of some who were called to faith in Corinth:...
by admin | Oct 11, 2016 | Section Three
What follows are pro and con comments from two websites. I set the texts side by side in Greek and English translation for comparison/contrast and offer them here without comment. “There are a number of references to the book of Sirach in the New Testament. James...
by admin | Oct 10, 2016 | Section Three, Sexual Immorality
I want to look more closely at Kyle Harper’s article published in the Journal of Biblical Literature, “Porneia—The Making of a Christian Sexual Norm.” He cited two sources to support the expansion of the meaning of πορνεία during the intertestamental period: Sirach...