Mt 19:9

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Wed May 12 16:44:26 EDT 1999


At 1:54 PM -0500 5/12/99, dd-1 at juno.com wrote:
>Denny Diehl here  with a question on Mt 19:9
>
>
>Please note the following:
>
>"hOS AN APOLUSHi THN GUNAIKA AUTOU MH EPI PORNEIA
>KAI GAMHSHi ALLHN MOICATAI"
>
>Wenham in his "Jesus and Divorce" states:
>
>	"Prepositional phrases are adverbial and normally
>	qualify the verb which they follow."
>
>Thus, his conclusion is that MH EPI PORNEIA modifies "divorce"
>but not "marries another".  His conclusion, then, is that Jesus'
>statement is not allowing for remarriage (to someone else) even
>if the cause for the divorce is adultery.
>
>Also, Donald Hagner in his Word Biblical Commentary on Matthew,
>states:
>
>	"Thus divorce is not allowed, except in special cases,
>	and remarriage after divorce is similarly ruled out (see
>	Dupont, Heth, Quesnell, Wenham [ JSNT 28 (1986) 17-
>	23 ].  ...  Exegetically, Wenham is more convincing on
>	this passage."
>
>William Heth in "Another Look At The Erasmian View Of Divorce
>And Remarriage", JETS Sept '82(?)  quotes Wenham:
>
>	"Had the clause comes after "marries another", it would
>	have expressly sanctioned remarriage; while placed
>	before "puts away" it would have made separation
>	mandatory for unchastity." -p271
>
>as a conclusion to:
>
>	"Prepositional phrases are adverbial in nature and
>	normally follow the unit they qualify."
>
>1)  What is the normal syntax for a phrase like MH EPI PORNEIA?
>
>2)  Are there other examples which might be noted?

There's considerable stuff in the archives on this; searching back only to
the beginning of 1997, I found:

Paul Dixon - Ladd Hill Bible Church	1/26/97	6	Re: K.S. Wuest on 2
Thes 2:3
Paul Dixon - Ladd Hill Bible Church	6/7/97	2	Grammar, Logic, Mt 19:9
Jeff Smelser	6/7/97	5	Re: Grammar, Logic, Mt 19:9
Paul Dixon - Ladd Hill Bible Church	6/8/97	5	Re: Grammar, Logic,
Mt 19:9
CEP7 at aol.com	6/9/97	1	Re: Grammar, Logic, Mt 19:9
Paul Dixon - Ladd Hill Bible Church	6/10/97	3	Mt 19:9, MH EPI PORNEIA
CEP7 at aol.com	6/12/97	2	Re: Mt 19:9, MH EPI PORNEIA
Jeffrey Gibson	10/5/97	7	Re: Matt. 5 - porneia
Ward Powers	10/4/97	9	Re: Matt. 5 - porneia
Ward Powers	10/8/97	19	Re: Matt. 5 - porneia
Ward Powers	10/10/97	3	Re: Matt. 5 - porneia
Ward Powers	10/10/97	6	Re: Matt. 5 - porneia
Ward Powers	8/9/98	9	Re:  1 Corinthians 7:27,28
Paul S. Dixon	8/19/98	5	Re: Women in the Church
Paul S. Dixon	9/21/98	3	Re:  Grice and conditionals (long, no Greek)
CEP7 at aol.com	9/21/98	2	Re:  Grice and conditionals (long, no Greek)

Not that there's any objection to renewing the discussion; but it might be
good to check back over what's been said on this before.



Carl W. Conrad
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