It is good for a man not to TOUCH a woman (1 Co r. 7:1)

Kevin W. Woodruff cierpke at prodigy.net
Mon Jun 17 15:57:18 EDT 2002


Jonathan:

Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch, Josephus, and the Septuagint (in Genesis 20:6
and Proverbs 6:29) all have the connotation of "sexual contact" as a meaning
for hAPTW and hAPTOMAI. There is no recorded use of of hAPTW to mean "to be
bothered with, concerned." If Paul would have wnated to say that, he would
have used the verbs SKULLW or MERIMNAW

Kevin 


At 01:20 PM 6/17/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>After studying this passage a while in the past, I have found that I believe
>"touch" here means "bother with" in a way.  That is, I think that Paul is
>saying, "It is good that a man does not concern himself with a woman" so
>that he can serve the Lord more fully.  I know this interpretation destroys
>some people's use of this verse, but we need to be honest w/ the text.
>
>Jonathan B. Ferguson
>Jferguson at tabernacleministries.org
>Psalm 55:22
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