Corpus-Paul

["Mark D. Nanos" <nanosmd AT comcast.net>]

Dear Harold,
I have no idea what your reply has to do with what you have cited from my
post. Nor do I have any idea what a quote from Hebrews is supposed to mean
in a discussion of Paul's views. I do know that this covenant has not "soon
disappear[ed]," so I suppose that one might say the writer of Hebrews was
wrong on that point. Nice that you condescend to permit other people to
observe something; however, I cannot remember that I suggested any non-Jew
should observe it, much less that it was "a requirement." If you just have
verses to cite without understanding that they require interpretation
(forget that they are not about Paul), and that a challenge on particulars
requires some kind of response on the points made by the discussion partner
or what results is not a discussion, you can save us both the bother.

Regards,
Mark
-- 
Mark D. Nanos, Ph.D.
Rockhurst University
Co-Moderator
http://home.comcast.net/~nanosmd/


on 1/16/05 2:14 PM, Harold R. Holmyard III at hholmyard AT ont.com wrote:

> Dear Mark,
> 
>> What was the telos of Paul writing such obsolete things, when the covenant
>> with Moses had "ended" and "loses its function" several years before the
>> letter to Rome was penned? Who was he trying to kid?
> 
> HH: The Abrahamic covenant was of a different
> nature than the Mosaic covenant, promise versus
> law. The Book of Hebrews says that the Mosaic
> covenant is obsolete:
> 
> Heb. 8:13 ¶ By calling this covenant "new," he
> has made the first one obsolete; and what is
> obsolete and aging will soon disappear.
> 
> HH: There is nothing wrong in people living
> according to it, but it is not a requirement.
> 
> Yours,
> Harold Holmyard
> 
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