Re: 2 Corinthians 3 (authentic or not?)
Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2021 7:57 pm
The answer is yes!
τῆς παλαιᾶς διαθήκης = "the old covenant." The Greek word diatheke means "through the sheath" meaning to put away one's sword by stowing it in its holster. The idea is that the end of hostilities signifies that a treaty had been agreed to. Covenant, in English, is just an old fashioned way of saying treaty.
There is another use I am aware of where the term diatheke can mean "a will," or again in old fashioned English, "Testament." The testament writer's terms under which a son may share in his father's estate. Those terms could at times be harsh, if he considers a certain son to be a lay-about or immoral. So, we're back to "covenant."
DCH
τῆς παλαιᾶς διαθήκης = "the old covenant." The Greek word diatheke means "through the sheath" meaning to put away one's sword by stowing it in its holster. The idea is that the end of hostilities signifies that a treaty had been agreed to. Covenant, in English, is just an old fashioned way of saying treaty.
There is another use I am aware of where the term diatheke can mean "a will," or again in old fashioned English, "Testament." The testament writer's terms under which a son may share in his father's estate. Those terms could at times be harsh, if he considers a certain son to be a lay-about or immoral. So, we're back to "covenant."
DCH
rgprice wrote: ↑Mon Feb 08, 2021 1:15 pm 2 Cor 3 reads rather oddly. Is it a later forgery?
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?s ... rsion=NRSV
In particular:Did Paul really say "the old covenant"?12 Since, then, we have such a hope, we act with great boldness, 13 not like Moses, who put a veil over his face to keep the people of Israel from gazing at the end of the glory that was being set aside. 14 But their minds were hardened. Indeed, to this very day, when they hear the reading of the old covenant, that same veil is still there, since only in Christ is it set aside. 15 Indeed, to this very day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their minds; 16 but when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed. 17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 18 And all of us, with unveiled faces, seeing the glory of the Lord as though reflected in a mirror, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another; for this comes from the Lord, the Spirit.