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

Jason Hare jaihare at gmail.com
Thu Dec 21 14:29:31 EST 2006


EXALEIYAS TO KAQ hHMWN CEIROGRAFON TOIS DOGMASIN hO HN hUPENANTION hHMIN,
KAI AUTO HRKEN EK TOU MESOU PROSHLWSAS AUTO TWi STAURWi

ἐξαλείψας τὸ καθ᾽ ἡμῶν χειρόγραφον τοῖς δόγμασιν ὃ ἦν ὑπεναντίον ἡμῖν, καὶ
αὐτὸ ἦρκεν ἐκ τοῦ μέσου προσηλώσας αὐτὸ τῷ σταυρῷ.

I think that the idea is that the "having nailed it to the cross" is the
/means/ by which it was removed, namely, by putting it to death. In the
Torah, we know that the people received a commandment to "put away the evil
from your midst" (Deut. 13:5) by putting him to death. So, in the imagery
that Paul attempts to create, the "handwriting in ordinances" was "an enemy
to us" which was put to death and removed from the midst on the cross. What
was this handwriting of ordinances? That is a more interesting question,
though one that is not exactly on-topic here.

Regards,
Jason Hare
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On 12/21/06, Webb <webb at selftest.net> wrote:
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> I posted this yesterday with a typo in the chapter and verse citation from
> Colossians. Here's another try:
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> EXALEIYAS TO KAQ hHMWN CEIROGRAFON TOIS DOGMASIN hO HN hUPENANTION hHMIN
> KAI
> AUTO HRKEN EK TOU MESOU PROSHLWSAS AUTO TWi STAURWi Col. 2:14
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> 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.
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> 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:
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> And God has taken it away from among us after nailing it to the cross.
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> Or,
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> And God has removed it from among us, after nailing it to the cross.
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> Any comments on the presumed temporal relationship between actions of the
> aorist participle and the finite verb here?
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> Webb Mealy
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Jason A. Hare
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