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  • From: "Stephen C. Carlson" <scarlson AT mindspring.com>
  • To: Corpus-Paul <corpus-paul AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Corpus-Paul] Timothy/Titus and circumcision
  • Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 09:24:09 -0500

At 12:22 AM 1/7/04 -0600, Jeff Peterson wrote:
>This reminds me of a question I've been intending to ask Richard: how on
>the hypothesis that Timothy and Titus are the same person does one
>reconcile Gal 2:3 (Titus not compelled to be circumcised) with Acts 16:3
>(Paul circumcised Timothy because of the Jews)?

Perhaps I've been living near Washington DC too long, but I have
to wonder why Paul said "not *compelled* to be circumcised" rather
than simply "not circumcised." Did Titus agree to it voluntarily
while reserving the right that it was not necessary?

Stephen Carlson
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