[B-Greek] Thread closed: APO KATABOLHS KOSMOU in Rev 13:8 and 17:8, etc.

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at ioa.com
Wed Nov 9 06:51:38 EST 2005


With some reluctance I am calling this thread to a halt. Certainly  
opposing understandings of the two texts in question have been argued  
in the course of this discussion, but particularly disturbing in  
several of the more recent contributions to the thread have been the  
intrusion of generic criteria regarding the nature of Revelation --  
hermeneutical judgments -- and increasingly the adducing of what  
might be called "proof-texts" from beyond the immediate context,  
beyond even the book of Revelation, in support of an interpretation  
of Rev 13:8 and/or Rev 17:8 that one favors. My judgment is that  
doctrinal concerns may have weighed more heavily from the outset than  
a concern to discern precisely what the text AS A GREEK TEXT may or  
may not mean, but arguments are now being adduced from beyond the  
immediate context, in some instances without any concern for citation  
of a relevant GREEK Biblical text, in support of a doctrinal stance  
rather than of a grammatical demonstration.

Accordingly, I am calling a halt to this thread. PLEASE DO NOT POST  
ADDITIONAL MESSAGES on this subject-header or re-introduce the topic  
under a different header.

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Carl W. Conrad
Co-Chair, B-Greek List
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu or cwconrad2 at mac.com
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