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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