From: Robert W Meyers (bwmeyers@juno.com)
Date: Tue Jun 13 2000 - 08:37:39 EDT
Gordon Goltz wrote:
GG>I am working on the pericope - 2 Corinthians 5.1-10 - for sermon
preparation, and am wondering what to do with a section of verse 10 -
besides scratch my head. Paul seems to be using some kind of Greek
shorthand when he writes: TA DIA TOU SWMATOS PROS A EPRAXEN. Can someone
out there
help with this?>
And Bill Barton answered:
> hina: So that
>hekastos: each one
>komisetai: may be paid in kind
>ta: things
>pros ha eproxen: according to what he did
>dia tou swmatos: while alive
>eite agathon eite phaulon: whether good or bad
>Eph. 6:8 and Col. 3:24-25 contain similar language and thought, and
suggest
>that "ta" in 2Cor 5:10 refers to rewards (and retribution?).
On dia tou swmatos, the literal seems "through THE BODY," rather
than "while alive."
While Bill's "while alive" is implied, I think that the whole point is
lost by just rendering it by its implication (just as the whole
point of 2 Thess. 2:3 is similarly lost, by translators' imagined
implication).
I suggest that "through THE BODY" has reference, not to OUR
bodies, directly, but rather to that BODY which is earlier called
the Body of Christ (cp Bill's refs, plus 1 Pet. 4:17, 1 Cor. 12:12,
Rom. 7:4, 1 Cor. 10:16, 12:27, Eph. 4:12, for starters).
I'll elaborate on this privately to Bill and Gordon, and anyone else
interested.
Bob
Christ Died to Save You
Bill Barton
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