The structures of Gal 2:4 and 2:6

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Tue Apr 23 16:33:50 EDT 2002


At 9:54 PM +0200 4/23/02, Iver Larsen wrote:
>>
>> Quite apart from the business about Acts 15 as a basis for understanding
>> Gal 2 (about which reams have, I think, been written--and this is not the
>> proper forum  {I'd suggest Corpus Paulinum} for discussion of the
>> relationship between the Pauline letters, whether authentic or disputed,
>> and the chronology and narrative of Acts), I find the notion of an
>> unexpressed/implicit ESTI at the outset of v. 2 far more intolerable than
>> assuming an anacoluthon. I think this is stretching a supposed "discourse
>> function of DE" pretty far. I could understand something like TOUTO DE DIA
>> TOUS PAREISAKTOUS YEUDADELFOUS ...-- "That is because of ..."
>
>I am quite happy to accept "That is because of..." or "That came about
>because of..."

Except that the text doesn't read TOUTO DE DIA TOUS PAREISAKTOUS
YEUDADELFOUS ...

>I am sure reams have been written about Acts 15 and Gal 2. The only thing I
>might like to clarify is that the incident in Gal 2:11-21 probably happened
>before the incident in Gal 2:1-10. This is based on careful discourse
>studies, so I won't go into details.

I'd have to be convinced of that too, but this is not the forum for it.
-- 

Carl W. Conrad
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