1)Before me, someone has already seen that Pilate is the guy who causes the evil goat to run away in the wilderness and kills the good goat (as per Leviticus 16).Secret Alias wrote: ↑Thu Apr 04, 2019 7:49 am Just a rule of thumb Giuseppe.
1. allegorical or symbolic arguments are hard to make convincing unless they have some history behind them (i.e. someone besides you who thought of it)
2. play on words need to be exact as possible (i.e. the yod in Pilate is extremely problematic)
3. the meaning of symbolic arguments have to be exact (i.e. that pelet means 'escape' not as you think 'to deliver someone else)
4. there has to be some overriding 'sense' to what you are suggesting.
None of these criteria have been met.
2) Pilate is too much portrayed in the act of who causes X to escape [X being Barabbas], apolusein occurs a lot of times in the Barabbas episode, as the action that has to be made by Pilate and only by him.
3) PALAT means at least in a particular OT passage "to cause a distint entity to escape". In this sense, it works perfectly with PiLaTe. Since Barabbas is the guy who escapes. Pilate is who moves Barabbas to escape. Pilate is a genuine "deliverance" for Barabbas.
4) the overriding sense is fully explained by Leviticus 16. Barabbas is the evil goat and Jesus is the good goat. Pilate, per PALAT, is simply the guy who moves the evil goat to escape in the wilderness, while he moves the good goat to be killed.
