From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Mon Dec 11 2000 - 10:16:24 EST
At 9:54 AM -0500 12/11/00, Mike Sangrey wrote:
>The only comment I would like to make on this topic is this:
>
> One can NOT argue a theological point from the semantics of one word.
I'm inclined to doubt whether one can even argue a LOGICAL point from the
semantics of one word outside of a relation to a context.
>The question really is: What is Paul saying in I Tim. 3:14 through to the
>end of the book and how does "savior of the world" relate to that? That
>will likely require a different understanding of SWTHR--in this
>context--as has been already suggested. In any case, it requires an
>understanding of the entire section (the boundaries of which I might not
>have drawn correctly).
>
>Theological points are BIG; they require a commensurate amount of semantic
>real estate to support them.
This may be true and I may very well be inclined to agree with it, but it
is a hermeneutical proposition which is not appropriate for discussion in
this forum.
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