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  • From: "Revd Dr Sean F. Winter" <sean.winter AT virgin.net>
  • To: Corpus-paul <corpus-paul AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re 1 Cor 15.10
  • Date: Sat, 07 Aug 1999 12:02:54 +0100


> "Revd Dr Sean F. Winter" wrote:
>
> > Craig,
>
> [snip]
>
> > To return to Paul and I Cor 15.10 it seems clear to me that EIMI HO
> > EIMI is simply an easy way of describing Paul's present status as keast
> > of the apostles. It wouldn't surprise me if the phrase cropped up all
> > over Greek literature in this idiomatic sense, but I don't have access
> > to TLG to do the search.
> >
>
>Jeffrey Gibson replied

The phrase actually seems to be relatively infrequent. According to my
TLG search for
> EIMI hO EIMI in texts from the 8th cent BCE through the 2nd cent CE, the
> exact phrase
> occurs outside of 1 Cor only three times, once in the Acts of John 100.8
> and twice in
> Origen, at De Oratione 6.5.28 and the Fragment of his commentary on 1 Cor
> at 79. On 1.
> Rough parallels can be found only in Euripedes Medea 275, Plato Hippias
> Major 272 d3,
> Alexander Aph. Metaphysics 612.4 and in the Scholia on Euripedes Ph. 484.1
> and on
> Homer's Iliad 1.147, 5.
>
>

So much for that particular hunch! - thanks for doing the search
Jeffrey.

Sean




  • Re 1 Cor 15.10, Revd Dr Sean F. Winter, 08/08/1999

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