[B-Greek] Col. 2:14--took it away and nailed it, or took it away after nailing it?
Webb
webb at selftest.net
Thu Dec 21 13:18:55 EST 2006
I posted this yesterday with a typo in the chapter and verse citation from
Colossians. Here's another try:
EXALEIYAS TO KAQ hHMWN CEIROGRAFON TOIS DOGMASIN hO HN hUPENANTION hHMIN KAI
AUTO HRKEN EK TOU MESOU PROSHLWSAS AUTO TWi STAURWi Col. 2:14
God has cancelled the statement of charges that was against us and hostile
to us. And God has taken it away from among us 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 charges (or whatever you
conceive it to be) to the cross, THEN took it away from among us (AUTO HRKEN
EK TOU MESOU)? Then the resulting sense would be:
And God has taken it away from among us after nailing it to the cross.
Or,
And God has removed it from among us, 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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