hEKASTWi hWS hO QEOS EMERISEN METRON PISTEWS
as God allotted to each [person] an amount of a commitment
Two things here puzzle me:
1) That God allots us PISTIS (commitment, faith, trust,
faithfulness) by amounts -- actually not too surprising, because
we do see it varying in practice, but
2) That EMERISEN is aorist, which seems to denote a
completed (end point in view) rather than ongoing
activity.
With these two together, it looks like Paul is asserting
that God allots us an amount of commitment (faith, whatever)
and that that doesn't grow.
Am I perhaps misunderstanding METRON? Could it in this
case mean something more like "sphere" than like "quantity"?
Regards,
Jim Vellenga