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  • From: Peter Kirk <peter AT qaya.org>
  • To: K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Gen. 2:16-17 :: idiom or clumsy lie
  • Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 17:54:00 +0000

On 05/12/2006 16:33, K Randolph wrote:
...
We should not take our situation and project it onto a situation other
than ours. The context is that rebelling would introduce death, an
action that did not exist prior to rebellion, as made explicit in the
understanding of the first century Jews who wrote the New Testament.

This understanding was made explicit before the NT. See for example Sirach (Ben Sira, Ecclesiasticus) 25:24: "From a woman sin had its beginning, and because of her we all die." (NRSV) See also my comments on this passage at http://englishbibles.blogspot.com/2006/11/some-verses-i-am-glad-are-not-in-my.html.

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Peter Kirk
E-mail: peter AT qaya.org
Blog: http://speakertruth.blogspot.com/
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