[B-Greek] 1 Cor. 7:1,2

ann nyland nyland at tsn.cc
Fri Oct 29 19:14:02 EDT 2004


Hi,
It actually just means to have a woman, not necessarily a wife (we have to
be careful not to impose our own cultural viewpoint on western marriage
today back into marriage in first century Palestine), and the current
scholarship certainly is precisely as Joe Weaks stated it. Paul is quoting
the Corinthians, and then answering that. Much work has been done on this.

I should point out that ideology can influence the translation of 1 Cor.
7:1-2 as certain ideological groups favor a lack of quotations throughout 1
Cor. and other ideological groups favor many quotations throughout 1 Cor.
Thus it's helpful to note that comments on 1 Cor. 7:1-2 could be heavily
ideologically biased from either point of view. That aside, the scholarship
on this passage from those who are not connected with either viewpoint is
precisely as Joe Weaks stated.

Best regards,
Ann Nyland

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Harold R. Holmyard III" <hholmyard at ont.com>
To: "Biblical Greek" <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2004 7:43 AM
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] 1 Cor. 7:1,2


> Dear Joe,
>
> >It's a good example of the issue regarding quotations in the GNT.
> >Thanks to the additions of Rhetorical scholarship, any good and
> >recent commentary on Corinthians points out that Paul is taking this
> >quote from a previous letter/contact he has received from them. It
> >need not be a "slogan" as the NET note says, but rather could be
> >quoted their correspondence. Notice also the failure of the NIV to
> >put the quote of v. 1 in quotes and properly identify what's going
> >on.
> >The quote comes from some in the church who are advocating that even
> >married people should abstain from sexual relations. This ideal has
> >something to do with a realized eschatology ("We're just spiritual
> >beings now, not carnal ones.") that Paul warns against over and over
> >again in 1 Corinthians. Paul is refuting this practice, and making
> >consolations ("Go ahead and have sex, so you don't fall prey to
> >other practices."), as he does over and over again in 1 Corinthians.
>
> HH: That is just a theory about what was going on in 1 Cor 7:1,
> although it is certainly possible. Paul is obviously interacting with
> what they wrote, answering a question or agreeing with a statement.
> The interpretation you give does not deal with the biblical material
> I gave earlier showing that ECW with GUNH means to be married, to
> have a wife.
>
> Yours,
> Harold Holmyard




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