Romans 1:17

Paul Toseland toseland at blueyonder.co.uk
Wed Aug 7 04:56:40 EDT 2002


On Aug 6 2002 Carl Conrad wrote,

>I personally think it is often the best we can 
>achieve in this forum to raise and air the issues 
>involved in Biblical Greek texts; any particular
>accounting of a text must win acceptance among 
any who do accept it by virtue of its own cogency.

>Please note that I am NOT stating a hermeneutical 
>proposition here; I am only stating an observation 
>about what has happened and does happen in our
>very earnest discussions in this forum.

Absolutely~! The issues involved in interpreting
many biblical texts are incredibly complex, and 
this is especially the case with some of Paul's 
letters. We start with a single phrase or clause,
but to make sense of it we have to look at how it
functions in the sentence, and it is not always
clear where the sentence begins or ends. And we 
often need to look at larger textual units, and
their function in the text as a whole; and then
we need to agree on the overall thrust of the 
text as a whole, it's structure, it's line of 
thought. And that it often a real can of worms!
This is certainly the case with Rom 1:17.


Paul Toseland 







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