[B-Greek] 2 Cor 12:7 beatings or diseases

Mitch Larramore mitchlarramore at yahoo.com
Fri Jan 9 12:27:22 EST 2009


KAI THi hUPERBOLHi TWN APOKALUYEWN DIO hINA MH hUPERAIRWMAI EDOQH MOI SKOLOY THi SARKI AGGELOS SATANA hINA ME KOLAFIZHi hINA MH hUPERAIRWMAI 

So many commentaries offer numerous suggestions as to what the thorn in the flesh was. Many seem to think it was his poor eyesight or malaria. However, does not this passage simply state that the SKOLOY was the AGGELOS SATANA? And further, that this AGGELOS was authorized to KOLAFIZHi Paul, namely, to 'beat' him in some sense. My question really then is why do commentaries move from the thorn representing an angel beating Paul to the thorn representing some eye disease, or some other malady? (I don't see how KOLAFIZHi could mean 'eye disease.')

Mitch Larramore
Sugar Land, Texas


      



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