1 Peter 2:19
John M. Harkins
smichael at bellatlantic.net
Wed Jun 9 08:40:03 EDT 1999
In replying to the posting of John Barach, I sent a blame it on the
computer message that is best described as a corrupt text. I apologize
to John and to all for this. Hopefully these two documents might serve
students as examples of scribal error. The correct text is as
follows:
TOUTO GAR XARIS EI DIA SUNEIDHSIN QEOU hUPOFEREI TIS LUPAS PASXWN ADIKWN
The famed two cents:
THEOU seems a pretty straightforward objective genitive. The rendering
of the word
SUNEIDHSIS as conscience or consciousness also seems straightforward. I
am not familiar
with the scholars that you cite (Goppelt, Van Houwelingen). In reading
/explaining
DIA SUNEIDHSIN QEOU as "the conscience trained on God which remains
bound to him" as
being the *basis* or *origen* of the suffering, they seem to me to
have remained
with the basic DIA notion of causality or reason. The expansion given
above does add a
vividness to the causality perhaps even startles a bit. It made me
immediately think
of Jn 17:14 even though there is no grammatical comparison. Seems to
me to be a
good reading.
(Rev.) John M. Harkins
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