[B-Greek] 2 Cor 12:7 beatings or diseases
Harold Holmyard
hholmyard3 at earthlink.net
Fri Jan 9 19:21:44 EST 2009
Mitch,
> KAI THi hUPERBOLHi TWN APOKALUYEWN DIO hINA MH hUPERAIRWMAI EDOQH MOI SKOLOY THi SARKI AGGELOS SATANA hINA ME KOLAFIZHi hINA MH hUPERAIRWMAI
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> 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.')
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An eye disease could harass someone. "Harass" is one of the glosses
given for KOLAFIZW. So are "strike" and "trouble." An eye disease with
its limitations could beat one down in a figurative sense.
Your,
Harold Holmyard
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