Mk 8:35-37, YUCH

dixonps at juno.com dixonps at juno.com
Sun Dec 19 20:20:59 EST 1999




On Sun, 19 Dec 1999 16:11:27 -0600 "Carl W. Conrad"
<cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu> writes:
> At 2:18 PM -0800 12/19/99, dixonps at juno.com wrote (inter alia):

> >It would seem better to understand it to mean that the one who desires
> >to save his YUCH at the higher or spiritual level must lose it or be
> >willing to lose it (AUTHN) at the lower or physical level.
> 
> The one thing I'd be wary of here is precisely what is indicated by
> translators' hesitation at using the same English word for YUCH in both
> instances: I don't think that one ought to attempt on the basis of 
> this to try to extrapolate an anthropological doctrine of two souls,
higher 
> and lower levels, consistently used in the Synoptic gospels. The 
> fluidity of the usage of YUCH in the GNT, it seems to me, pretty much
precludes 
> that; I'd refer again to the lengthy and complex entries on YUCH in
Louw 
> and Nida.

How, then, do you interpret these verses, or is this out of bounds on the
list?

Paul Dixon



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