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• Can be seen as independent unit, genre differs from chs 12 & 14
• unlike 12 & 14 does not contain a single imperative verb and all verbs with people as subject are 1st person vs 3rd for 12 & 14
• seems it would be more appropriate after 14
• 12 & 14 discuss spiritual gifts and role in public worship, 13 is an encomium on love
• despite scholarly arguments that themes in 13 do tie into 12 & 14 this would be expected for interpolation as well
• 14.1a seems to be a redaction seam from 12.31a, iow 14.1b follows smoothly after 12.31a
• other scholars have noted 13 is a digression in Paul's argument
• Even if interpolation, doesn't necessarily mean it wasn't written by Paul
• Walker sums: It is rather an interruption that both breaks the logical flow of chs. 12 and 14 and, in a literary style quite foreign to these chapters, declares essentially irrelevant the issues there being discussed."

Martyrdom. In 1 Cor. 13.3, there may be a reference to martyrdom.
Here, we encounter what Fee terms 'one of the truly difficult' textual
choices in the New Testament.65 Although the manuscript evidence
would appear to support the reading, 'if I deliver my body in order that
I might boast', most scholars prefer the variant, 'if I deliver my body in
order that I might be burned'.66 If the latter is indeed the correct reading,
it may, as Fee indirectly suggests, pose a problem so far as Pauline
authorship of the passage is concerned: 'Even though martyrdom by
fire was not unknown among the Jews, this had not yet become a
Christian phenomenon; the fiery persecutions of Nero are still at least a
decade away'.

perseusomega9 wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2020 4:07 am Walker's points for 1 Cor 13 interpolation.

• Can be seen as independent unit, genre differs from chs 12 & 14
• unlike 12 & 14 does not contain a single imperative verb and all verbs with people as subject are 1st person vs 3rd for 12 & 14
• seems it would be more appropriate after 14
• 12 & 14 discuss spiritual gifts and role in public worship, 13 is an encomium on love
• despite scholarly arguments that themes in 13 do tie into 12 & 14 this would be expected for interpolation as well
• 14.1a seems to be a redaction seam from 12.31a, iow 14.1b follows smoothly after 12.31a
• other scholars have noted 13 is a digression in Paul's argument
• Even if interpolation, doesn't necessarily mean it wasn't written by Paul
• Walker sums: It is rather an interruption that both breaks the logical flow of chs. 12 and 14 and, in a literary style quite foreign to these chapters, declares essentially irrelevant the issues there being discussed."

perseusomega9 wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2020 8:35 am and those start in the redactional seam at 12.31b

Ben C. Smith wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2020 7:36 am

perseusomega9 wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2020 4:07 am Walker's points for 1 Cor 13 interpolation.

• Can be seen as independent unit, genre differs from chs 12 & 14
• unlike 12 & 14 does not contain a single imperative verb and all verbs with people as subject are 1st person vs 3rd for 12 & 14
• seems it would be more appropriate after 14
• 12 & 14 discuss spiritual gifts and role in public worship, 13 is an encomium on love
• despite scholarly arguments that themes in 13 do tie into 12 & 14 this would be expected for interpolation as well
• 14.1a seems to be a redaction seam from 12.31a, iow 14.1b follows smoothly after 12.31a
• other scholars have noted 13 is a digression in Paul's argument
• Even if interpolation, doesn't necessarily mean it wasn't written by Paul
• Walker sums: It is rather an interruption that both breaks the logical flow of chs. 12 and 14 and, in a literary style quite foreign to these chapters, declares essentially irrelevant the issues there being discussed."

The highlighted part is what especially draws my eye.

Reply to an objection founded on the words of St. Paul (2 Cor. iv. 4). St. Paul occasionally uses words not in their grammatical sequence.
1. As to their affirming that Paul said plainly in the Second [Epistle] to the Corinthians, In whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of them that believe not, 2 Corinthians 4:4 and maintaining that there is indeed one god of this world, but another who is beyond all principality, and beginning, and power, we are not to blame if they, who give out that they do themselves know mysteries beyond God, know not how to read Paul. For if any one read the passage thus — according to Paul's custom, as I show elsewhere, and by many examples, that he uses transposition of words — In whom God, then pointing it off, and making a slight interval, and at the same time read also the rest [of the sentence] in one [clause], has blinded the minds of them of this world that believe not, he shall find out the true [sense]; that it is contained in the expression, God has blinded the minds of the unbelievers of this world. And this is shown by means of the little interval [between the clause]. For Paul does not say, the God of this world, as if recognising any other beyond Him; but he confessed God as indeed God. And he says, the unbelievers of this world, because they shall not inherit the future age of incorruption. I shall show from Paul himself, how it is that God has blinded the minds of them that believe not, in the course of this work, that we may not just at present distract our mind from the matter in hand, [by wandering] at large.

2. From many other instances also, we may discover that the apostle frequently uses a transposed order in his sentences, due to the rapidity of his discourses, and the impetus of the Spirit which is in him.