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  • From: "John Dickson" <jdickson AT bigpond.com>
  • To: "Corpus-paul" <corpus-paul AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: question
  • Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 16:49:20 +1000

Rick Strelan wrote:
 
>Any thoughts on the object of what 'we see in a mirror dimly' in 1 Cor 13:12? Is it God? ourselves? the future? something else?>
 
Rick,
For what it's worth: I take it that the 'object' is (the knowledge of) God. The reference to PROSWPON PROS PROSWPON in v.12b implies a vision of a person, ie., God. This is suggested further by the divine passive (EPEGNWSQHN) in 12c. Of course, the point is to relegate Corinthian claims to have gained full knowledge of divine mysteries. A similar relegation is found in 2:6-16.
 
Regards,
John Dickson
Department of Ancient History
Macquarie University
Sydney, Australia


  • question, John Dickson, 09/12/2000

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