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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE GREATER SIN. A NOTE ON S. JOHN XIX. 11. Oi'K e-xes tt-ovffiav Kar efj.au oi'Sefitav ei fy 8e8o dvov ffoi KvwQtv 5m Tovt irapaooL'S f( ffoi /teffova afiutpriav ?xei' (WxsrcoiT And Hour's Tenr). THOU wouldst have no power 3gainst me, except it were given thee from above: therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath greater sin. So this passage runs in the ll.V.; and (reading authority instead of power) we may accept it as a fair translation of our Lord's words as recorded by S. John. To reach the popular interpretation of the passage, we must add to the translation a paraphrase. The apparent meaning, the meaning that most men give to the words, is something like this: Thou wouldst have no authority to hurt me, if this authority were not given thee from heaven: therefore he-that-delivered-me (i.e. the traitor Judas) to thee hath a sin that is greater, either because thine authority is a trust from heaven or because he delivered me to thee. A variant of this interpretation is supplied by some critics, who believe that from above may mean from the Roman Emperor, thy superior officer. With these slight divergences in detail, I think the above paraphrase expresses the popular belief as to the meaning of our Lord's words. Obviously, the correctness of this view must be tried by two entirely different tests; the meaning of the individual words used by our Lord, and the bearing of the passage, as a whole, on the context and the facts of the case. Under the second head we may also include another point?the relevance of the second clause to the first. They are joined by Sia Rovro, and (in spite of a grammatical difficulty in the use of the Accusative) Sta Rovro is undoubtedly sound idiomatic Greek for therefore. So we must not VOL. X...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217279666 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021727966X |
| Weight | 1.04 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.72 In |
| List Price | $23.56 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 320 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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