From: "Harold R. Holmyard III" <hholmyard AT ont.com>
To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Gal 3:16 as midrash (was...)
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 22:33:53 -0600
Dear Christian,
You wrote:
Absolutely! That is why so many Christians to whom I point out this passage
find it very troubling. If their pastor tried something like this they would
take him to task.
Harold: Well, their pastor was not inspired, which is another Christian
belief about Paul's writing. And the NT together with the OT gives plenty
of reasons for supporting Paul's -in my opinion- midrashic wordplay. In
other words, the force of his statement would be in the assertion itself,
as supported by other Scripture, not in the "exegesis."
I appreciated your post considerably, and thank you for the effort that
went into it.