Re: AGAMOS in 1 Cor. 7

From: Jim West (jwest@highland.net)
Date: Thu Oct 09 1997 - 13:28:45 EDT


At 11:36 AM 10/9/97 -0400, you wrote:
of marriage and divorce.
>
> I still maintain that the meaning of AGAMOS has not been
>definitively established in 1Cor. 7:8, 32 and 34, although some evidence
>points to a meaning of "previously, but not presently married." My concern
>is that we should proceed cautiously and not jump to conclusions on this
>matter that affects how we view the bond of marriage.
>
>David L. Moore
>

On what basis would you draw such an anology? Are you suggesting that the
alpha privative connotes something like you suggest? If so, then what do
you do with a-theist? Once they had a god, but now they don't? What about
the other alpha privatives?

The alpha privative serves the same function in Greek that "un" serves in
english. Thus agamos means "un-married".

Jim

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Adjunct Professor of Bible,
Quartz Hill School of Theology

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