Re: Anthropology & Colossians 3:12-15

From: Jonathan Robie (jonathan@texcel.no)
Date: Wed Mar 04 1998 - 22:01:07 EST


At 09:02 PM 3/4/98 -0500, Nichael Cramer wrote:
 
>There are some interesting issues of translations here.
>
>Paul's "bowels" presumably go back to the Hebrew where the "bowels
>moved". One the one hand, one can make a good argument that "to feel
>compassion towards" *is* the literal translation of the phrase, since
>--in a very real sense-- that is what it "means".
 
Interesting...so anal retentive people are not very compassionate, I assume?

Jonathan
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