Paul's Greek

Mark Wilson emory2oo2 at hotmail.com
Wed Jul 31 14:06:29 EDT 2002



I am not aware of any NT document written by Paul
personally. I suppose one could speculate that he
wrote one or more, but it would be just that, speculation.

Note the open of Romans:

PAULOS DOULOS CRISTOU IHSOU....EUCARISTW...

Here is an epistle that directly states it is from
Paul, and yet we are explicitly told that Paul did
NOT write it...  EGW TERTIOS hO GRAYAS THN EPISTOLHN

We might ask how well did Tertius know/write Greek, or how
well he reduced the thoughts of Paul to writing in Romans. I believe
there are a few lines here and there that Paul said he
personally wrote, but they are too few to assess his Greek. In
short, I think the Pauline epistles reflect the thoughts of
Paul, but not his Greek.

My thoughts,

Mark Wilson


What is remarkable is the level of consistency that we do
see among the Pauline epistles, written by who knows how
many different writers.

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