[B-Greek] ARSENOKOITHS: Did I get this right?
Jim West
jwest at highland.net
Tue Mar 15 13:56:05 EST 2005
Doug Chaplin wrote:
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>Er .. a) how exactly do you know Paul coined this word?
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First use.
>b) there are many ways of being general, and a vice list is one such way:
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A list is usually not something general is it? A list specifies. If
your wife says "pick up dinner" that's general but if she says "pick up
moo goo guy pan from Wangs Chinese Diner then if you don't bring that
your in a bit of trouble. Likewise, and again, if Paul had wished to
excoriate sin or sins in general he would and could have. But he didn't.
>yes it mentions specific sins, but it decontextualises them just enough for
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I'm not really sure what you mean here. He specifies and
decontextualizes? That seems an oxymoron.
>us to be unable to make much more than an etymological guess about what they
>mean.
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I respectfully disagree. Paul used a word and words that made perfect
sense to the folk who read or heard them. Paul was smart and
communicated with a great deal of ability. After all, we still read and
discuss his stuff all these years later. Etymological guesses aren't
necessary when a word's meaning is clear.
Best,
Jim
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