Re: Chiasm in Matt 7:6?

From: Jonathan Robie (jonathan@texcel.no)
Date: Sun Dec 07 1997 - 08:13:08 EST


At 07:06 AM 12/7/97 -0600, Carl William Conrad wrote:

>I don't really think it's a chiasm; if it were, then B' should refer to
>the pigs and A' to the dogs again.

That's precisely the claim they are making, and that's precisely the claim
that I don't understand. They say that A' *does* refer to the dogs again.

>It should probably be realized that this saying may originally have been
>using "dogs" to mean "Gentiles"--just as in the story of the
>Syro-Phoenician Woman (children's food to dogs, even the dogs under the
>table get the crumbs--all in the Marcan context of lots of crumbs left
>over after the miraculous feedings of multitudes).

What would the swine symbolize if the dogs are Gentiles?

Jonathan
 
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