Corpus-Paul

["Revd Dr Sean F. Winter" <sean.winter AT virgin.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.
> >
> 
>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