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Archive for August 4th, 2007

Scripture in the reader’s voice

John Hobbins has an excellent post on the voices that mediate scripture to us, from the voice of the author, through the parental story-teller, to the synagogue cantor. So often, the meaning of scripture for us is the one we were first told, whether by the echoes of the childhood story, the way it was [...]

Those disdained in the church

There is a near consensus among modern translations about the way to render the problematic verse 1 Corinthians 6:4. I list several typical translations embracing the theological spectrum:
βιωτικὰ μὲν οὖν κριτήρια ἐὰν ἔχητε, τοὺς ἐξουθενημένους ἐν τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ, τούτους καθίζετε;If you have ordinary cases, then, do you appoint as judges those who have no standing [...]

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