Heb 2:17

John Oaklands j_m_oaklands at yahoo.com.au
Mon May 10 19:55:23 EDT 1999


Say, Edgar, that's interesting.  I like the thought that some things we
just can't adequately say in a few words.  Please let me know when that
doctoral dissertation comes out in print.

John

--- Edgar Krentz <ekrentz at lstc.edu> wrote:
> >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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