[B-Greek] BHMA in 2 Cor 5:10

Jeffrey B. Gibson jgibson000 at comcast.net
Thu Jan 1 19:46:26 EST 2004



munnerlyn wrote:

> If you'll excuse a comment from a "newbe", as you'll see in this link, the
> Bema is a real place in Corinth.
> http://gbgm-umc.org/umw/corinthians/bema.stm
> In my humble opinion, the author is painting a word picture of a spiritual
> event with a metaphor using a physical place.
>

And as the page you site notes, it was not just in Corinth where such places
could be found.    Moreover, I believe if you look at instances of the use of
the word in Greek literature, you'd see that a BHMA could be something hastily
erected on the battle field. That is to say, it was not always a permanent
structure.

Yours,

Jeffrey Gibson
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