This is the whole matter of Pauline psychology which I have found most
admirably expounded in a section entitled "Pauline Anthropology" of Rudolf
Bultmann's old-but-still-very-good _New Testament Theology_. He says that
hO ESW ANQRWPOS is equivalent to the PNEUMA of a person--the knowing,
deciding, determining subjective part of selfhood which one might well call
the "I" in distinction from the SWMA which is the external self or
objective self--the "me" of selfhood which one's "I" may contemplate (and
discern going its own way contrary to the will of the PNEUMA) and which is
discernible by other persons. When the SWMA is alienated from the PNEUMA as
a consequence of sin, Paul refers to is at SARX or SWMA THS hAMARTIAS or
the like.
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University
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