AGAPH outside the New Testament

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Fri Jun 14 05:53:46 EDT 2002


At 1:52 AM -0400 6/14/02, jburke at sprint.com.au wrote:
>Hi David,
>
>>
>So Larry, do AHABAH and AGAPH mean loving someone enough to want to rape him
>or her?
>>
>
>Why couldn't it?

Gee, by this logic we're going to have Eph 5:25 (hOI ANDRES, AGAPATE TAS
GUNAIKAS) being used soon as a Biblical proof-text that husbands are
justified in doing whatever they please to their wives.
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