3 Corinthians 27

Bart Ehrman behrman at email.unc.edu
Wed Dec 11 09:05:01 EST 2002


    A tricky passage in the Bodmer papyrus text of 3 Corinthians; the
author is trying to establish that there really will be a resurrection of
the flesh, and uses the analogy of the seed (cf. 1 Cor. 15), pointing out
that it is sown naked but then raised clothed, so to say.  And then:

	WSTE OU MONON TO SWMA EGEIRETE TO BLHQEN ALLA POLLOSTON ORQON
HULOGHMENON.

        Which means something like "so that not only do you raise up the
body that is cast down, but it is multiplied, erect, and blessed."

   Or is there a better way to deal with the final three words (polloston,
orthon, huloghmenon)?

-- Bart Ehrman
   University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill




More information about the B-Greek mailing list