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Tue May 3 10:41:24 EDT 2011
> far, it seems that documentation to support an interpretation of ALEIFW as
> figurative is quite limited. (TDNT refers to Ignatius Eph., 17, 1; T.
> Flavius Clemens Alexandrinus's Paedagogus II, 8, 61; and Act. Thom.)
The figurative use is clear from the next verse just as the medicinal use is
clear from the context in Luke 10:38 which by the way uses neither word, but
EPICEW. If medicinal use was intended, one could expect EPICEW, but not
CRIW. There is no hint in James that the oil has any healing efficacy, but
it is the prayer and faith that are shown as instrumental for the healing
and the Lord himself does the healing, whatever sickness is there, not just
a wound which might benefit from oil.
Iver Larsen
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