by admin | Jun 1, 2012 | Adultery in the Prophets, Section One, Sexual Immorality
If I look now at the word group from which πορνεία is derived the idea that Jesus, Paul and the New Testament writers had idolatrous worship with its drunken sexual practices in mind when they used it, is not as strange as it first sounded. Here are the words as they...
by admin | May 29, 2012 | Adultery in the Prophets, Section One, Sexual Immorality
I want to track נָאַף (nā’ap̄) in the Old Testament prophets to see if I can find a better understanding of πορνεία as used by Jesus, Paul and the New Testament writers. Hosea was a prophet in the northern part of the divided kingdom of Israel during the time...
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...