In Leviticus 20:17 is the XSD connected with the incest or
the punishment? If with the incest then yes, it refers to a
negative, but if with the punishment, then it is undeserved
good favor to banish them when they deserve death.
In Proverbs 14:34 I understand as "Justice exults a nation,
but undeserved good favor of peoples errs." The root meaning
of X+) is to miss the mark, to err from which the theological
meaning of sin is a derivative. (The New Testament use of
hAMARTIA is a parallel to this use, a direct copy of Hebrew
usage.) This is one of the cases where I think translating
using the theological understanding errs.
Karl W. Randolph.
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From: "Peter Kirk" <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
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On 21/08/2005 04:12, Karl Randolph wrote:
> ... So where does it have an opposite meaning? The concordance I
> use lists three possible times, Leviticus 20:17, Proverbs 14:34,
> 25:10, but each makes sense using the above meaning, so where is
> the opposite meaning?
>
>
>
Karl, I really don't see how you can consider that incest between a
brother and sister, in Lev 20:17, can be described as anything like
"(undeserved) good favor", or how any kind of positive evaluation
of that behaviour is either possible in the wider context or is
compatible with "They must be cut off before the eyes of the
people". This is a clear and unambiguous negative sense or use of
the word. Similarly for the more general "sin" in Proverbs 14:34.
-- Peter Kirk
peter AT qaya.org (personal)
peterkirk AT qaya.org (work)
http://www.qaya.org/
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