[B-Greek] AGAPAW, FILEW, etc. in the GNT

Mike Sangrey MSangrey at BlueFeltHat.org
Fri Feb 17 08:39:33 EST 2006


On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 22:59 -0800, Tim Elliott wrote:
> I also appreciated the article on love as I recently completed a study
> on 1 Corinthians. The question that I have is: If these words for love
> are interchangeable, why didn't one of the three writers of the the
> "First and Second Commandment" use FILEW or where are the equal number
> of times FILEW is used compared to AGAPAW in 1 Corinthians 13?

One possible explanation for the "first and second commandment"
consistency would be that the original audience was an oral culture.
And oral cultures tend to have certain "rules" regarding what can and
can not be changed in the story.  I would assume that the words used in
something of the nature of the "first and second commandment" would be
protected by the community and therefore they would be perfectly
consistent across all tellings.

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Mike Sangrey                               (msangrey AT BlueFeltHat.org)
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