[B-Greek] Col. 1:14--took it away and nailed it, or took it away after nailing it?
Webb
webb at selftest.net
Wed Dec 20 19:34:43 EST 2006
EXALEIYAS TO KAQ hHMWN CEIROGRAFON TOIS DOGMASIN hO HN hUPENANTION hHMIN KAI
AUTO HRKEN EK TOU MESOU PROSHLWSAS AUTO TWi STAURWi
God has cancelled the statement of unpaid debts that was against us and
hostile to us. And God has publicly taken it away and nailed it to the
cross.
I don't think any translations I've seen treat the aorist participle
PROSHLWSAS in exactly this way (yet see NASB), but could this statement be
read as saying that God nailed the statement of debts (or whatever you
conceive it to be) to the cross, THEN publicly took it away (AUTO HRKEN EK
TOU MESOU)? Then the resulting sense would be:
And God has publicly taken it away after nailing it to the cross.
Or,
And God has publicly removed it, after nailing it to the cross.
Any comments on the presumed temporal relationship between actions of the
aorist participle and the finite verb here?
Webb Mealy
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