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  • From: "Stephen.Finlan" <Stephen.Finlan AT durham.ac.uk>
  • To: Corpus-paul <corpus-paul AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: RE: The Offense of the Cross
  • Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 13:34:11 +0100


I tend to agree with Douglas Horst, that the "offense of the
cross" in Gal 5:11 is the strange and embarrassing idea of a
humiliated Messiah. What Mark Nanos has described seems more
like the offense of Gentile-inclusion rather than, specifically,
of the cross. The offense of Gentile-inclusion would, presumably,
still have been an issue even if Jesus hadn't been crucified.
But crucifixion was the ultimate humiliation and was, for the
conventional way of thinking, "proof" that Jesus could not
have been the Messiah. To teach otherwise was a _skandalon_.




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