From: JClar100@aol.com
Date: Tue Mar 19 1996 - 11:43:58 EST
1) In Romans 8:19 is THS KTISEWS a reference to "human family," "non-human
creation," "lower creation," or the "entire created world?" I'm trying to
determine whom or what THN APOKALUPSIN TWN hUIWN TOU THEOU APEKDECHETAI ("is
eagerly awaiting the unveiling of the children of God".)
2) Also, does anyone have an idea as to the meaning of THN APOKALUPSIN,
which I have translated "unveiling?" Dunn suggests that this "unveiling" is
the revelation of the "status" of the children of God. He does not, however,
really indicate what he understands that "status" to be. He does personify
this so that creation, as it were, becomes the audience watching the human
actors as they play their parts upon the stage. There are others who see
this revelation as some kind of resurrection experience or eschatalogical
unveiling.
Thanks.
James Clardy
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