[B-Greek] [B-GREEK] GAL 2:2 DOKOUSIN

Oun Kwon kwonbbl at gmail.com
Sat Jan 30 22:59:34 EST 2010


On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Blue Meeksbay <bluemeeksbay at yahoo.com> wrote:

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> Gal. 2:6-9
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> Isn’t there another way to look at these verses? It still would fit in nicely with hISTORHSAI.  Isn’t it possible that the aorist participles IDONTES  and GNONTES should be connected with the verb EDWKAN?  What may confuse the issue is that the participle IDONTES is translated as a finite verb in the English. If this is true don’t we see a contrast between the so-called men of high reputation and the apostles? The “they” (in English) of verse 7, then would be the apostles James, Cephas, and John. They would give to Paul the right hand of fellowship "over the objections" of those men of high reputation. The men of high reputation would, more than likely, be those “false brethren,” (false in not that they did not hold to Jesus being the Messiah, but false in that they misunderstood His mission), referred to in verse 4 and who were also described in Acts 15:5 as those from the sect of the Pharisees, who were still called brethren by James
>  in verse 13,  but were regarded as false in their gospel because of their insistence for circumcision and the keeping of the law.

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I don't think I can read the text to say 'men of high reputation' is
same as 'false brethren'.  Sure they were infiltrated by false
brethren.

If I am correct, the implicit subject of both participles v. 7 IDONTES
and v. 9 GNOTES has to be the three pillars  J-C-J. When it is
rendered as 'they' as most do for IDONTES, the readers are left
wondering whether it might refer anaphorically to those men of high
reputation in vv. 2 & 6.  In any case, 'men of high reputation' do
seem to include the three pillars, as evident from using similar
expression with OI DOKOUNTES, OI DOKOUNTES EINAI TI, OI DOKOUNTES
EINAI
STULOI.

I do not see in this text obvious tension btw Paul and Jerusalem
Church leaders, unless Paul meant obliquely that the three pillars
have been affected by false brethren.

Oun Kwon.



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