Meaning of PAS

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Mon Dec 11 10:16:24 EST 2000


At 9:54 AM -0500 12/11/00, Mike Sangrey wrote:
>The only comment I would like to make on this topic is this:
>
>   One can NOT argue a theological point from the semantics of one word.

I'm inclined to doubt whether one can even argue a LOGICAL point from the
semantics of one word outside of a relation to a context.

>The question really is:  What is Paul saying in I Tim. 3:14 through to the
>end of the book and how does "savior of the world" relate to that?  That
>will likely require a different understanding of SWTHR--in this
>context--as has been already suggested.  In any case, it requires an
>understanding of the entire section (the boundaries of which I might not
>have drawn correctly).

>
>Theological points are BIG; they require a commensurate amount of semantic
>real estate to support them.

This may be true and I may very well be inclined to agree with it, but it
is a hermeneutical proposition which is not appropriate for discussion in
this forum.

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