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

Jeffrey B. Gibson jgibson000 at comcast.net
Fri Oct 29 20:57:52 EDT 2004



"Harold R. Holmyard III" wrote:

> Dear Ann,
>
> >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.
>
> HH: What point are you trying to make? Do you think Paul would not go
> along with God's idea of marriage?

The issue isn't what Paul would or would not go along with (even if it doesn't
beg all sorts of off topic questions to assert, as you do, that there is such a
thing as  "God's idea of marriage"), is it?.  It's what the expression in
question meant in Koine.

Yours,

Jeffrey Gibson
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