Philippians 1:9-10

Mark Wilson emory2oo2 at hotmail.com
Tue Sep 12 20:20:09 EDT 2000


Philippians 1:9-10

>
>KAI TOUTO PROSEUCOMAI,
>hINA
>   hH AGAPH hUMWN ETI MALLON KAI MALLON
>         PERISSEUHi EN EPIGNWSEI KAI PASHi AISQHSEI,
>	EIS TO DOKIMAZEIN hUMAS TA DIAFERONTA
>
>Is this saying that love promotes sound and practical scholarship?
>

Mike:

I take EN EPIGNWSEI as Means.

"Your love may abound by means of..."

Love, therefore, abounds as a by-product of knowledge. Not knowledge as the 
academically driven accumulation of information or data, but knowledge in 
the biblical sense of:

DIA TO hUPERECON THS GNWSEWS CRISTOU (3:8)

TOU GNWNAI AUTON (3:10)

This "knowledge" leads one into deeper intimacy/worship! The RESULT
of this kind of relationship/knowledge is the love you reference above.

This is why "knowing" could represent the most INTIMATE of acts between a 
husband and wife. Indeed, Mary had not "known" a man before conceiving the 
Lord.

I think then that it should be understood exactly the opposite as your 
question implies.


Thank you,

Mark Wilson


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