From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Fri May 04 2001 - 19:16:30 EDT
At 1:48 PM -0700 5/4/01, John Lupia wrote:
>John N. Lupia
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>To: Tom Belt
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>Subject: [b-greek] 1Cor 14.1: DIWKETE
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>Hi all-
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>1 Co 14.1 reads DIWKETE. What's the possibility that this ought to read (as
>it is in the majority of instances) as "persecute" and the verse be
>understood as a Pauline rebuke something like, "You guys are persecuting
>love..."?
Just about nil, I'd say. There follows immediately another word ZHLOUTE
which would appear also to be an imperative, although it too COULD be
construed as an indicative. I think both are imperatives and that the
second imperative, with its object clause (MALLON DE hINA PROFHTEUHTE) is
explained by the GAR clause that follows immediately: "be eager for
spiritual gifts, but primarily to prophesy, because the one who ..." At any
rate, that's my take on it.
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Carl W. Conrad
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