[B-Greek] 1Cor. 15:50 SARX KAI hAIMA, 1 Jn 4:2 SARKI

Elizabeth Kline kline_dekooning at earthlink.net
Sat Mar 13 10:11:21 EST 2010


Iver,

On Mar 12, 2010, at 8:33 PM, Iver Larsen wrote:

> Neither expression in and of themselves indicate anything about lack of permanence or mortality.

A couple of observations, 

In regard to SARX, lack of permanence is proverbial in both the OT and the NT. 

1Pet. 1:24 διότι πᾶσα σὰρξ ὡς χόρτος καὶ πᾶσα δόξα αὐτῆς ὡς ἄνθος χόρτου· ἐξηράνθη ὁ χόρτος καὶ τὸ ἄνθος ἐξέπεσεν·

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> 1Cor. 15:50 Τοῦτο δέ φημι, ἀδελφοί, ὅτι σὰρξ καὶ αἷμα βασιλείαν θεοῦ κληρονομῆσαι οὐ δύναται οὐδὲ ἡ φθορὰ τὴν ἀφθαρσίαν κληρονομεῖ. 
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> 1Cor. 15:50 TOUTO DE FHMI, ADELFOI, hOTI SARX KAI hAIMA BASILEIAN QEOU KLHRONOMHSAI OU DUNATAI OUDE hH FQORA THN AFQARSIAN KLHRONOMEI. 

I would agree with Yancy, 

On Mar 12, 2010, at 11:22 AM, Yancy Smith wrote:

> SARX, PISTIS, CARIS, PNEUMA are such loaded terms in Paul. Paul uses these and other terms in a highly contextual key terms in an ad hoc manner in his pastoral rhetoric. I have no doubt that Paul's use of the terms shares semantic features with John's use in 1 John 4:2, but I would not say the lexical meaning of the term is any different in these contexts. Paul qualifies what he means in 15:50 as ἡ φθορὰ. Why couldn't John mean Χριστὸν ἐν σαρκὶ ἐληλυθότα = EN SARKI TWi FQORWi?



Thank you,

Elizabeth Kline
 






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