[B-Greek] DEUTERAN CARIN ECEIN: get a second chance? (2 Cor. 1:15, 001 ACDGK etc.)
Webb
webb at selftest.net
Thu Jan 4 20:08:59 EST 2007
In 2 Cor. 1:14, Paul makes an emotional statement-obviously contradicting
his detractors-that he and the Corinthians will have reason to be proud of
one another when Christ comes. Then he begins to talk about what's evidently
a very sore subject. Between the lines of 1:15 - 2:4 I read that Paul has
told them of plans to visit them, but has had to cancel, and his detractors
appear to have made a great deal of that-either saying that he was too weak
and humiliated to face them, and has slinked away rather than coming, or
simply that he has no integrity because he says one thing and then does
another. Given that the proposal of a visit seems to have been made right in
the midst of a developing problem in the church, I immediately read him as
saying,
Because on the day of our Lord Jesus, you're going to be proud of us, just
like we're going to be proud of you.
And I'd wanted to come to you with that confidence earlier, so you'd have a
second chance.
hOTI KAUCHMA hUMWN ESMEN KAQAPER KAI hUMEIS hHMWN, EN THi hHMERAi TOU KURIOU
hHMWN IHSOU.
KAI TAUTHi THi PEPOIQHSEI EBOULOMHN PROTERON PROS hUMAS ELQEIN hINA DEUTERAN
CARIN SCHTE
Granting the text-critical question for the sake of argument, what do you
think of this suggestion, that DEUTERAN CARIN ECEIN means to get a second
chance?
Webb Mealy
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