Corpus-Paul

["Justin Dombrowski" <jedombrowski AT msn.com>]

Good point.  I suppose Cyrus also fits in that category, as in Ezr-Neh, 2 
Chron, and Isa.  However, it seems to me it's one thing to say someone was 
permitted authority from on high (even to do nasty things), but it's another 
thing to call them a diakonos tou theou with the list of attributes Paul 
does.  I don't think one follows from the other.  And while John (or his 
community) calls Pilate the former, it's unclear to me whether they'd do the 
latter.  You could be right, nevertheless.

Justin
JTS


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony Costa" <tmcos AT rogers.com>
To: "Corpus-Paul" <corpus-paul AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, May 30, 2005 3:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Corpus-Paul] Re: Rom. 13 not about civil government??


> Justin D. stated, "it strikes me as a little odd that Paul would refer to 
> a roman civil magistrate as a "diakonos tou theou". I don't want to 
> digress from the discussion under way on Rom.13, but the idea of a civil 
> magistrate as a "diakonos tou theou" was not strange to the Johannine 
> community.  In John 19:10-11, Jesus informs Pontius Pilate that he would 
> not have any authority to crucify him unless it was given, ANWQEN "from 
> above", ie. from God. I don't see why this concept would not also be 
> shared by the Pauline community.
>
> Tony Costa, M.A., ThD (cand)
> Toronto, Canada
>
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