[B-Greek] Jam 1:13 APEIRASTOS 'unable to' or 'unable to be ~'
Jeffrey B. Gibson
jgibson000 at comcast.net
Wed Jul 4 21:10:30 EDT 2007
Oun Kwon wrote:
> Why! In Source, Ann Nyland gives an example of extra-biblical source
> for this rare word, where it reads 'who puts no one through an
> ordeal', the way I like to understand in the text of James.
>
I'm not sure this solves any problems. Indeed, it creates one -- for it
is clear in the Hebrew Bible/LXX that God **does** put people through
ordeals (cf. e.g.., Gen. 22; Deut 6-8).
Jeffrey
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