Corpus-Paul

[criticaltom AT juno.com]

Dear List:

I would love to know what any of you make of Paul's quotation of Psalm
44:22 (44:23 HB) in Romans 8:36:  "As it is written, 'For your sake we
are being killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep to be
slaughtered'" (NRSV).

My point is that Psalm 44 is a protest directed to/at God, but Paul's use
seems very positive.  In fact, I'd say that he uses it support the idea
of "vindication through suffering."  One other thing, the Psalm has been
reinterpreted in a post-holocaust vein (obviously).  All responses are
appreciated.

Tom Edmondson
Student, Candler School of Theology

"What I know, the public does not approve, and what it approves, I know
to be error" - Copernicus.

"The Reformation did not do away with the medieval Papacy and all of its
predecessors, it merely democratized it and made everyone Pope"  -  Clark
Carlton.