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  • From: "moon-ryul jung" <moon AT saint.soongsil.ac.kr>
  • To: corpus-paul
  • Subject: Re: hUPO NOMON in Gal 4:5
  • Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 7:18:4


Mark,
I feel so good because I "have no questions".

> To return to 5:13, they are thus tempted, from Paul's perspective, to
> use their freedom (i.e., for these gentiles, their standing as
> righteous ones apart from proselyte conversion, free to understand
> themselves in these "new age" terms) as "an "occasion"/"opportunity"/
> clearer is "incentive" [AFORMHN; as dative of advantage] for the
> flesh, that is, for the agonistic quest for status that Paul sees
> represented in these gentiles seeking to overcome the social problem
> they face by conforming with "human" conventions, instead of an
> incentive to serve each other as they brave the problems that this
> causes together, walking straight toward the truth of the gospel,
> whatever the cost. The rest of the letter sets out the program for
> suffering together in this task of remaining faithful, as did Christ
> and Paul, at great social cost from those who do not share their view
> of reality.
>
CLEAR ENOUGH!

> Is that clear at all? As I read this passage, since Paul has not
> proposed any Law-free gospel, there is no reason to be concerned with
> concomitant antinomianism. The fear for Paul remains the same here as
> in the rest of the letter. Will these gentiles, because of social
> constraints associated with their identity claims, comply with the
> dominant Jewish or pagan communal interpretations of what is "right"
> for them, either turning back to some practices of pagan life in
> order to survive since they are not proselytes entitled to abstain
> therefrom, or of becoming proselytes in order to completely eliminate
> the problem, since they no longer regard themselves as pagans, and
> cannot really go back since becoming Christ- and thus Spirit-people?
> Paul opposes both options, and calls them to understand who they now
> are in Christ, righteous ones of God, and thus to what they must
> suffer and yet continue to affirm in their lives together as they
> "wait for the hope of righteousness" (5:5).
>

Makes a good sense!
>

For the first time, I have an interpretation of Galatian that is not
"paradoxical". It feels good.


> If you wish to raise the issue of Rom. 6 after this explanation, then
> we can move at that time from Galatians to Romans.

Yes, I would be very much interested in how you would respond to my
second reply.

Moon
Moon R. Jung
Associate Professor
Sogang University
Seoul, Korea
> Regards,
> Mark Nanos
> Kansas City




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