[B-Greek] ARSENOKOITHS: Did I get this right?

Jonathan Robie jwrobie at mindspring.com
Tue Mar 15 09:36:10 EST 2005


Joseph Weaks wrote:

> An appeal to the bulk of the evidence that surrounds you only 
> testifies to the voices you choose to expose yourself to. Your 
> characterization of "the state of things" is a straw man. Surely, if 
> you are to be so bold as to bring up such a controversial topic in 
> B-Greek, you should go to lengths to represent both sides in a fair 
> way. It's not hard to find good stuff. My files are not accessible at 
> the moment; I know D. Balch edited a book that has fair chapters 
> dedicated to the issue.

What I did was basically to reconstruct what BDAG says, adding some 
information from the references he cites in favor of his interpretation 
(and ignorning the references he does not cite in favor of his 
interpretation). The reason I posted this here was to determine whether 
it was true (as I said in the introduction). In another setting, I may 
need to be able to represent both sides in a fair way, and I do not yet 
have the information I need to do so. Some of that information may be in 
your files or in that book.

So please, let's restrict this to the meaning of the Greek and evidence 
for one or the other view. And let's avoid adjectives and follow B-Greek 
policy especially carefully in this discussion.

> In hopes that we can reconcile,

Amen.

Jonathan



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