[B-Greek] re. I Cor 15,22
Eddie Mishoe
edmishoe at yahoo.com
Sun Jun 13 09:27:28 EDT 2004
HH
I think you are making this way too difficult and
overlooking the plain meaning of the phrases. The text
says no more than those EN TWi ADAM or those EN TWi
CRISTWi are included in their separate groups. The
only case one could argue on a grammatical basis is a
non-universal inclusion in each group. There are two,
separate groups.
Those EN TWi ADAM do not participate with those EN TWi
CRISTWi.
Eddie Mishoe
--- "Harold R. Holmyard III" <hholmyard at ont.com>
wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> I am in controversy with a universalist, and we are
> discussing I Cor
> 15:22, where one has:
>
> 1Cor. 15:22 For as in Adam all die, even so in
> Christ shall all be made alive.
>
> He think that in context this verse implies that
> everyone will be
> resurrected to glory. I pointed out that the proper
> nouns Adam and
> Christ are preceded by definite articles, but proper
> nouns usually
> usually lack the article. The definite articles
> before Adam and
> Christ in Greek suggest that these could be
> something other than
> strictly proper names. Rather, they might function
> conceptually to
> represent spheres or collectives. This is the first
> mention of Adam
> in the context, so it cannot be the definite article
> of previous
> reference.
>
> Does this suggestion have merit? Am I overlooking
> something? Thanks.
>
> Yours,
> Harold Holmyard
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