LSJ 9 entry

c stirling bartholomew cc.constantine at worldnet.att.net
Tue Apr 23 23:52:40 EDT 2002


on 4/23/02 8:27 PM, jburke at sprint.com.au wrote:

> I don't see any reason to get all hot and bothered about the passage in
> Philippians.  Why not just translate it as 'form'?  That's well within the
> semantic range of MORFH.  I don't see what the fuss is about.

That is like exchanging a enigma for a conundrum. Translation equivalents
are not the issue. They solve nothing.  EN MORFHi QEOU is a difficult
expression in terms of Second Temple Judaism. Attributing a MORFH to QEOS is
the problem and the definition that you were asking about "essential nature"
would to some extent solve the problem in Phil 2:6ff but that definition
doesn't seem to have much support.

Anyway, I assumed your question had something to to with NT Greek. That was
my error.

Greetings,

Clay

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Clayton Stirling Bartholomew
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