Heb 2:17

Edgar Krentz ekrentz at lstc.edu
Mon May 10 12:09:57 EDT 1999


>Hi
>
>Does any one have any thoughts on the word hOMOIWQHNAI in Heb 2:17?  To
>what extent *like*?  Is English adequate to express what this is saying
>in the Greek?  There are those who would want to make this to mean
>*equal*, but to me that seems to be stretching he word, mood and tense
>a bit.  Or does this link with the earlier phrase, as some translate,
>KATA PANTA?
>
>John

You raise an interesting question, which reverberates in Pau'ls use of
hOMOIWMA in Rom 8:3 [cf. 6:5]  and Phil 2:7. Years ago Ernst Kaesemann
suggested in his lectures on NT theology that there is a doctiral
dissertation lurking in this noun and related verbs in the NT. It remains
to be written.


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