[B-Greek] Colossians 1:10

Daniel Goepfrich pastor at oaktreecc.org
Tue Jan 9 07:45:50 EST 2007


Dear Webb,

That's what I thought, too, but the other came to mind, so I thought I'd
ask.  Thanks

Daniel

-- 
Daniel Goepfrich
Oak Tree Community Church
http://2timothy22.blogspot.com


On 1/8/07, Webb <webb at selftest.net> wrote:
>
> Dear Daniel,
>
> PERIPATHSAI AXIWS TOU KURIOU EIS PASAN ARESKEIAN EN PANTI ERGWi AGAQWi
> KARPOFOROUNTES KAI AUXANOMENOI THi EPIGNWSEI TOU QEOU
>
> I prefer your option 2:
>
> 2 - We are to bear fruit *by doing* every (i.e., each kind of) good work
>
> You ask, Can we pick and choose which good work we want to do, so long as
> it bears fruit?
>
> I don't think that's what Paul is saying. I think he's saying that the
> community should collectively bear every variety of good fruit, as each
> member does their particular variety of good work and so bears their
> particular variety of good fruit. The good works and the fruit-bearing are
> synonymous, rather than the latter being consequent upon the former. The
> good news bears fruit (see Col. 1:6) in people when they live it out.
>
> Notice that bearing fruit (KARPOFOREW) and growing (AUXANW) are connected
> plant metaphors, and one's fruit-bearing in good works is connected to
> one's
> growth in the knowledge of God. So practical living out of the principles
> of
> the good news, and thus living in a manner worthy of the Lord, is the
> mechanism through which we grow in knowledge of God.
>
> Webb Mealy



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