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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] Was Romans written from Ephesus?
  • Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 16:05:41 -0500

At 03:05 PM 1/24/04 -0800, David @ Comcast wrote:
>In the Greek the same one word - aspazomai - is used in all of vv. 3-16.
>Strong's concordance defines this word (782) as: ". to enfold in the arms,
>i.e. (by impl.) to salute (fig.) to welcome:- embrace, greet, salute, take
>leave." In other words, Paul is not sending greetings from himself to
>people who have been in Rome for some time. Instead, he is asking the
>Christians in Rome to welcome, embrace, greet, or salute a group of
>arrivals.

Thanks for the suggestion; however, my lexical resources (BDAG and TWNT)
ASPAZOMAI has acquired a specialized meaning of something like "send my
greetings to."

Stephen Carlson

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