[B-Greek] Col. 2:14--took it away and nailed it, or took it away after nailing it?

George F Somsel gfsomsel at yahoo.com
Thu Dec 21 14:27:50 EST 2006


I sometimes get a chuckle out of the "theology of the tenses."  It seems that entirely too much is made of tenses in some instances.  In this case, beginning with v 10 Paul makes increasing use of the aorist until in v 15 it practically becomes all-consuming.  I would not put too much emphasis upon it.  I think it's simply historical without an attempt to set out a sequence.
 
george
gfsomsel
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From: Webb <webb at selftest.net>
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Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 1:18:55 PM
Subject: [B-Greek] Col. 2:14--took it away and nailed it, or took it away after nailing it?


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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