Corpus-Paul

[Mark Goodacre <goodacre AT gmail.com>]

On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 09:21:36 -0500, George F Somsel <gfsomsel AT juno.com> wrote:

> Note also the
> sequence in Gal 2.
> 
> (1) Titus was note COMPELLED to be circumcised
> (2) False brethren had attempted to achieve this.
> (3) Cephus comes to Antioch
>       (a) he eats with the gentiles
>        (b) out of fear of the circumcision party he separates from the
> gentiles
>        (c) Paul opposes Cephus for attempting to COMPEL the gentiles to
> Judaize

The sequence is not self evident, though. Your 3 (c) appears to take
ANAGKAZEIS IOUDAIZEIN as a conative present, *attempting to* compel,
but why not simply "how can you compel the Gentiles to Judaize?"?

Mark
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