Biblical Hebrew Forum

["C. Stirling Bartholomew" <jacksonpollock AT earthlink.net>]

Thanks Kevin, this does help:

On 9/5/04 2:19 PM, "Kevin W. Woodruff" <cierpke AT prodigy.net> cites RE
Brown**:

> ... there is always some refusal of an
> inopportune involvement, and a divergence between the
> views of the two person concerned; yet (a). implies
> hostility while (b) implies simple disengagement.

This boils it down nicely.

greetings,
Clay  

** 
>Raymond Brown "The Gospel According to John I-XII, "
> in The Anchor Bible. Vol 29. Garden City: New York, 1966. page 99.