From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Sun Jan 07 2001 - 07:33:08 EST
At 9:35 PM -0600 1/6/01, Steven R. Lo Vullo wrote:
>On 1/6/01 5:35 PM, Carl W. Conrad wrote:
>
>> I have to say that I am surprised and even disturbed at the vehemence of
>> this attack. Although in the opening statement it's stated that the
>> gauntlet here flung out, so to speak, should not be taken personally;
>> indeed, it seems to be directed to all those who would continue to hold to
>> the notion that there really IS an intended nuance of difference between
>> AGAPAW and FILEW in John 21.
>
>Carl and list
>
>I honestly didn't mean this as an "attack." But after rereading my post I
>can definitely see how it could be taken thus. I apologize to Steve (and to
>all who may have been offended) for my ill-advised tone and will take care
>in the future to think about how my comments may be perceived in an e-mail.
>
>> I've said that I think there's a growing preponderance of people holding
>>that
>> the two verbs are really pretty much synonymous, but that there are some
>>whose
>> opinions I respect that I know hold otherwise,and also that I don't think a
>> majority opinion ought ever to be equated with the TRUTH, even if it's
>>not to
>> be sneezed at.
>
>To be fair, I don't think I suggested that the majority opinion ought to be
>equated with the truth.
My own apologies to Steven and the list; I agree that you certainly didn't
say any such thing. It was the combative tone of the message that struck me
as excessively hostile to the stance that there's a significant difference
between AGAPAW and FILEW in this particular passage. And I thought that it
was this particular passage that was the focus of the discussion rather
than generally in NT texts. I think we have to be careful about making
generalizations about these two words as if they were always used
synonymously in the NT when they pretty clearly are not, although there are
certainly instances where they are pretty clearly used synonymously. My own
statement about a majority opinion was a response to what seemed to me an
unduly combative challenge to those who want to see ANY SIGNIFICANT
differentiation of the two verbs to, as it were, "put up or shut up."
Ultimately TONE and the appearance of combative tone make all the
difference in the world; what I intended to underscore in my own response
was that we really should EXPECT some serious disagreements over issues
such as this one.
--Carl W. Conrad Department of Classics/Washington University One Brookings Drive/St. Louis, MO, USA 63130/(314) 935-4018 Home: 7222 Colgate Ave./St. Louis, MO 63130/(314) 726-5649 cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu WWW: http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~cwconrad/
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