[B-Greek] Gal 4.4

Barry nebarry at verizon.net
Tue Jul 21 23:21:20 EDT 2009



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From: "Mitch Larramore" <mitchlarramore at yahoo.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 11:10 PM
To: "B- Greek" <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [B-Greek] Gal 4.4

>
> ...EXAPESTEILEN O QEOS TON UION AUTOU, GENOMENON EK GUNAIKOS...
>
> Is there an alternative to GENOMENON EK GUNAIKOS? To say someone came from 
> a woman/mother seems insulting to mention, assuming the reading audience 
> is north of imbeciles. How could someone bring themselves to include this 
> in a serious piece of communication?<<

Is there a question about the Greek somewhere here?  I can think of more 
than one theological and contextual reason why Paul might feel the need 
state this, but that gets into areas beyond the scope of this list, I should 
think.  Oh, and according to NA, there are no variants worthy of mention.

N.E. Barry Hofstetter
Adjunct Faculty, Classics @ Montclair
http://www.montclair.edu/
Classics Instructor, The American Academy
http://www.theamericanacademy.net/

And me: http://my.opera.com/barryhofstetter/blog


 




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