Re: Galatians 3:13

Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Sun, 10 May 1998 08:34:42 -0400

At 2:51 PM -0400 5/09/98, Edgar Foster wrote:
>To whom does hHMAS and hHMWN refer to in Gal. 3:13?

You've probably had an answer to this one by the time I can get this
posted, but nevertheless:

At the very least this first plural pronoun must refer to the Galatian
congregation and the author, Paul himself. It is surely not a rhetorical 1
plural = "me." I think the reasonable surmise here is that it refers to
believers, specifically to the "faith-justified" in the sense clarified by
Paul in this letter (and also, of course,in Romans).

Carl W. Conrad
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