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Standard translations of the critical standard text of Galatians 3:3-5 all read harshly, like this: "Are you so foolish? After starting in the Spirit, are you now finishing (ἐπιτελεῖσθε) in the flesh? Have you suffered so much for nothing, if it really was for nothing? Does God lavish His Spir...

Using the western ordering of the names of the pillars (instead of the authorial, "James and Cephas and John), but identifying the pillars correctly, Jerome wrote: "Therefore, the pillars of the Church are the apostles, and especially Peter, James, and John, of whom two deserved to ascend ...

Generative AI According to Bible Hub, God does not play favorites because He judges everyone by the same standard. Here are some Bible verses that mention this: Romans 2:11 "For God does not show favoritism. For God judges everyone by the same standard". Deuteronomy 10:17 "The LORD yo...

"God does not play favorites" in Paul, James and Acts Jouette Bassler, PdD, Yale, wrote in Biblica, 1985: "There are, as we have noted, some striking similarities between Paul’s statement of the concept of impartiality in Romans and the statement we find in Acts 10. The wording, for ...

JoeWallack wrote: ↑Thu Nov 23, 2023 1:41 pm Kunigunde, "Another great post".

Agreed.

David, Is the introductory information on the Wikipedia page about the Odes of Solomon accurate? I'm particularly interested in determining whether the author had knowledge of New Testament writings and intentionally incorporated literary echoes of the New Testament in the Odes. Language and date Al...

As I work on reconstructing Helvidius's views from Jerome's counter-arguments, I wish I could read the following in French: G. Joussard's 'La Personnalité d'Helvidius' in 'Mélanges J. Saunier' (Lyon, 1944), pages 139-156. Unable to read French, I am currently working independently until English lang...

Helvidius may have thought that the pillar James in Galatians was the son of Zebedee, as Augustine did. Jerome's counter-argument suggests this: "Notice, moreover, that the Lord's brother is an apostle, since Paul says, Galatians 1:18-19 Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Ce...

Helvidius's response to Jerome, as I imagine it: Just as Jerome predicts that I will cry out, "My view has been torn to shreds not by evidence of Scripture, but by evasive arguments," I do indeed cry out! He makes evasive arguments! Notice how he carefully evades a complete quotation of M...

As prelude to imagining Helvidius's response, here is what Jerome wrote about the identity of "James the Less" (Mark 15:40) in The Perpetual Virginity of Mary , his essay against Helvidius. https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3007.htm 13. (11. Hieronymus,_De_Virginitate_Beatae_Mariae,_MLT.pd...