From: Carl William Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Fri Jan 16 1998 - 11:57:06 EST
On Fri, 16 Jan 1998, Paul S. Dixon wrote:
>
> I agree that the grammar is nondeterminative. So, any interpretation
> here which posits a teaching foreign to scripture, such as a
> post-resurrection preaching to the departed, must remain at least highly
> suspect.
Highly suspect indeed, with the added difficulty that this text is itself
scriptural and on the basis of its possible interpretation may posit a
teaching of a post-resurrection preaching to the departed. This gets into
hermeneutics, which is not an appropriate subject for discussion here. I
note only that this text, with all the problems it involves, IS part of
the canon.
Carl W. Conrad
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