Re: Romans 12:20 swrew anqraxas purws epi thn kefalhn

From: George Gunn (ggunn@shasta.edu)
Date: Fri Sep 13 1996 - 12:52:06 EDT


At 06:37 AM 9/13/96 -0700, Jonathan Robie wrote:

>Is this phrase used anywhere except for Romans 12:20? Is there any evidence
that
>this phrase is an idiom?
>
Jonathan,

See the excellent treatment of this passage in Peter Cotterell & Max Turner,
Linguistics & Biblical Interpretation (IVP, 1989) pp. 302-307. The proverb
is evidently an Egyptian proverb that found its way into Proverbs (25:1,2).

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George Gunn
Shasta Bible College
email ggunn@shasta.edu
Web www.sbible.com
James 5:7,8



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