[B-Greek] BHMA in 2 Cor 5
Mitch Larramore
mitchlarramore at yahoo.com
Sat Jan 3 01:17:21 EST 2004
Waldo:
I read with keen interest your last reply. It made
alot of sense to me. What do you mean exactly by
"secular" ? I think I know but I want to confirm this
concept you have enlightened me to.
--- waldo slusher <waldoslusher at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> --- Mitch Larramore wrote:
> > In what sense is the default meaning of this word
> > "judgment"? Would this word have a default meaning
> > different in Corinth (with the Isthmus games close
> > by)
> > than in another city?
> >
>
> There is no default sense of BHMA, or any word for
> that matter. And the meaning of BHMA would not bring
> to mind a "tribunal" of a military or judicial
> (secular) sense. And in fact, the same author of
> this
> verse has already addressed this very issue in his
> initial letter. Any attempt to make this some kind
> of
> "judgment" in the secular sense of the word is
> anachronistic.
>
> The first thing you have to do is to ascertain the
> many and varied reasons why people stood before the
> various "BHMA" in Corinth. There is no reason to
> default to a judicial (tribunal) sense unless one is
> predisposed to such a view. One could just as easily
> default to an "olympic" sense or a "religious"
> sense.
>
> To assign to BHMA a secular sense is without
> warrant;
> there are simply other alternatives that must first
> be
> analyzed and afterwards eliminated based on
> authorial factors.
>
> =====
> Waldo Slusher
> Calgary, AB
>
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