Gal 1:6

Steven Craig Miller scmiller at www.plantnet.com
Sat Dec 11 08:07:50 EST 1999


To: Carl W. Conrad,

<< "I'm surprised that you are allowing yourselves so quickly to be turned 
away from the one who called you by grace to another gospel." (and by the 
way, isn't Carlton's understanding--in his version which is cited at the 
head of this message--closer to a passive than a middle understanding of 
the voice of METATIQESQE here?).  ... it seems to me that Paul's choice of 
a present tense is itself well-suited to a pastoral stance: the shift of 
commitment is NOT one that has been completed; rather it is one that he 
hopes to avert by the intense argumentation he is about to set forth in the 
letter ahead. >>

You made two excellent points here which <I say sheepishly> I had 
overlooked! Thanks!

-Steven Craig Miller
Alton, Illinois (USA)
scmiller at www.plantnet.com
Disclaimer: "I'm just a simple house-husband (with no post-grad degree), 
what do I know?"




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