2 Cor 12,2 PRO ETWN

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Mon Jun 19 06:17:26 EDT 2000



Harold Holmyard wrote:
<< It is "fourteen years ago" according
to the UBS GNT Concise Dictionary's understanding of the function of PRO
in
2 Cor 12:2: PRO ETWN DEKATESSARWN ...>>


I agree with  the common translation.
But PRO means also  "before" as  in the Jewish Antiquities:4,226
GHN hO PHUTEUSAS, PRO ETWN TESSARWN AN KARPWN   PROBALEI TA PHUTA
 the trees of which produce fruits before the fourth year, is not to
bring thence any first-fruits to God.

On this example I read In 2Co12,2  :  "I know a man in Christ before the
fourteenth year..." .
In the 13th year after his conversion Paul had a new revelation; and
during the 14th he returned to Jerusalem.
 54/55 was a sabbatical year, and It seems that the Letter to the
Galatians was written in july/August 56 (cf F. Refoulé, Revue
Biblique,1988/95/2 p 161-83).

 
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