Corpus-Paul

["Jeffrey B. Gibson" <jgibson000 AT mailhost.chi.ameritech.net>]

"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.
>

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.

Yours,

Jeffrey
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