From: Jim West (jwest@Highland.Net)
Date: Mon Feb 09 1998 - 16:15:23 EST
At 02:21 PM 2/9/98 -0600, you wrote:
>The tone and tenor of this is more or less pantheistic, unless one would
>prefer to call it panentheistic. And I think that the author of Acts knows
>the poem.
>
I agree that the author knows the poem- but I tend to think that it is far
more Stoic than Carl or Mary would think.
But, leaving that aside, the passive is a much more natural and logical
reading than the middle. The middle, it seems to me, is forced.
>Carl W. Conrad
Jim
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Jim West, ThD
Adjunct Professor of Bible
Quartz Hill School of Theology
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