----- Original Message -----
From: "Harold R. Holmyard III" <hholmyard AT ont.com>
>You cannot be seriously arguing from Greek usage to Hebrew meaning.used Greek in one context, Aramaic
HH: Why not? I am quoting from a letter to the Hebrews. The letter is
presumed to have a Jewish person for its author. You speak as though
Jewish culture did not transcend language barriers. It may be that Jews
in another, and Hebrew in another, but the culture itself would beHarold,
much the same. And the ideas expressed in one language would have
their counterparts in another language. If the Hebrews spoke of
Abraham sowing seed in Sarah in Greek, they might speak and think
similarly in any other language they happened to use.
Paul, being a Roman citizen from Asia Minor, probably spoke Greek as his
mother toungue, and probably thought in Greek as well. Chances are that he
"imported" Greek expressions into his Hebrew or Aramaic, not the other way
around. Certainly, when writing Greek, he thought like a Greek.
Yigal
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