1 Cor 6:18

Carlton Winbery winberyc at speedgate.net
Sat Oct 2 19:19:58 EDT 1999


Trevor and Margaret Nicholls wrote;

>1 Cor 6:18
>  FEUGETE THN PORNEIAN PAN AMARTHMA
>  O EAN POIHSH ANQRWPOS EKTOS TOU
>  SWMATOS ESTIN O DE PORNEUWN EIS
>  TO IDION SWMA AMARTANEI
>
>What a tricky verse (apart from the first two words).
> I would like to ask a couple of questions.
>
>Do EKTOS and EIS give the same sense as our
>"external" and "internal"?

I would think so. Some sins are not with the body (outside) and the sin of
fornication is within (perhaps even "against" the same body).

>Is TO IDION SWMA ("his own body") clarifying
>the body referred to in TOU SWMATOS or is it
>contrasting this with some other body?
>(I know many commentators see one as the
>"one-body-many-members" body and the other as
>an individual body - but it looks to me like IDION
>is on the wrong body if this is so).
>
I think the verse has to be broken up into three parts.

1)  FEUGETE THN PORNEIAN  "Avoid sexual sins."
2)  PAN AMARTHMA O EAN POIHSH ANQRWPOS EKTOS TOU SWMATOS ESTIN "Every
(other) sin which a man commits is outside the body>"
3)  O DE PORNEUWN EIS TO IDION SWMA AMARTANEI "But he who commits
fornication sins within (or against) his own body." Hence, I think that it
is the same body in both instances else the contrast (DE) makes no sense.


>

Dr. Carlton L. Winbery
Foggleman Professor of Religion
Louisiana College
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