[B-Greek] Rom. 5,7

George F. Somsel gfsomsel at juno.com
Sun Jun 27 22:55:33 EDT 2004


On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 17:50:08 -0700 (PDT) Eddie Mishoe
<edmishoe at yahoo.com> writes:
> 
> MOLIS GAR hUPER DIKAIOU TIS APOQANEITAI
> hUPER GAR TOU AGAQOU TACA TIS KAI TOLMAi APOQANEIN
> 
> (For rarely will anyone die for a righteous person,
> though for a good person perhaps someone might
> possibly dare to die.)
> 
> Am I understanding this correctly? The author is
> saying that it would be very rare for someone to be
> willing to die for a DIKAIOU/righteous person. But, 7b
> suggests that someone would be 'more likely' to die
> for a AGAQOU/good person. Why does this seem to say
> that a person is less likely to die for a righteous
> person and perhaps every so slightly but more willing
> to die for a good person?
> 
________

In understanding this passage I think we need to put quotes around
DIKAIOU.  It seems that Paul is here speaking of one who makes a point of
appearing to be totally upright in everything according to the law.  It's
the self-righteous man he refers to.  No one will give a rip for him,
though for the truly good person someone might die.

gfsomsel



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