what would be incomprehensible? My claim that only Marcion could have a such disregard for the Old Testament, by saying that Jesus is the new and only scripture ("Solus Paulus"), and the rest (Jewish Scriptures) doesn't matter? I invite you to learn better about Marcion.Chrissy Hansen wrote: ↑Mon Mar 25, 2024 12:49 pm In response to your last comment to me: No that is not what I said. It is always evident that you are grasping at straws when you don't bother representing what we say correctly and go on wild tangents.
And your second paragraph is incomprehensible.
As to the your numerous attacks ad hominem, I invite you to read again what DCH wrote (in particular the part in bold):
DCHindley wrote: ↑Wed May 24, 2017 4:44 pm The word that is being variously translated Public Records or Archives is ἀρχείοις, from
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/mor ... i\#lexiconLSJ wrote:ἀρχεῖον , τό, neut. of an Adj. ἀρχεῖος, α, ον : ῾ἀρχή II):—
A. town-hall, residence, or office of chief magistrates, Hdt.4.62 (dub.), Lys.9.9, X.Cyr.1.2.3, Isoc.5.48, Arist.Mu.400b16; “τὰ ἀ. καὶ βουλευτήρια” D.10.53, cf. IG2.475.21, al., OGI268.18 (Nacrasa, iii B. C.), PGrenf.2.30, al. (ii B. C.).
2. τὰ ἀ. public records, archives, prob. in SIG684.7 (Dyme, ii B. C.), cf. D.H.2.26, PTeb.397.19 (ii A. D.).
The records being referred to here are the kind to be found in the local town hall, or at best, a regional hub of something, possibly as big as a province to just the HQ of a military unit.
Why couldn't these fine folks have been suggesting that unless it is something affecting their locale directly, it is not important to them? There were no "public libraries" in the Roman empire, except maybe private libraries, or libraries dedicated to Senate business, state sanctioned cults related to Roman culture, and few others, in Rome itself. Locally, some folks ran off circulars to pass around town periodically to gossip about who was seen with whom and doing what.
I do not see anywhere that Judean holy books were described by this word, or there would have been a note of it in LSJ.
DCH