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  • From: kraft AT ccat.sas.upenn.edu (Robert Kraft)
  • To: corpus-paul AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Cc: kraft AT ccat.sas.upenn.edu (Robert Kraft)
  • Subject: Westcott on salvation (TAN)
  • Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 01:39:42 -0400 (EDT)


Interesting. Way I heard it, Westcott on being approached by a Salvation
Army lass who asked if he was "saved" replied "do you mean ..." (etc. as
below, with the three Greek tenses)? Does anyone know the source of this
story ("legend" in a neutral sense)? And do the various tellings reflect
attitudes of their own to such street-corner evangelism? (If the version
that I heard decades ago is historical, did it reduce the questioner to
tears, or befuddlement, etc.?!)

> I have come to the conclusion that “salvation” and “justification” are
> virtually coextensive. I recall B. F. Westcott’s famous answer to the
> question, “Are you saved?” He replied (in Greek): “I have been saved, I
> am being saved, and I shall be saved.” In other words, salvation
> transpires in three tenses. A good definition of “salvation,” I think
> can be found in Cranfield’s Romans, 1.89:
>
> Don Garlington

Bob
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  • Westcott on salvation (TAN), Robert Kraft, 06/14/1999

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