This might appear to have some internal probability, as the less obvious expression of the two; but it may be perhaps explained satisfactorily in another way. On the whole, it seems best to abide by the Received text, which is that of the majority of MSS. Who loved me.--Christ died ...
Joel - I have said just that, but didn't name people. I've just said that our sin is the same as an axe murderer's. I "explained" it (and this might be out of that format you just mentioned) by saying that God is so large that from that vantage point valleys andmountains appea...
The tense of the present indicative δικαιοῖ is hardly to be explained thus: would justify as we now see he is doing. The usual effect of the oratio obliqua transfers the standpoint of time in δικαιοῖ to the time of the foresight, the present tense being put instead ...
Not Influenced by the Jerusalem Church (1:16c-17) Paul has explained that he received a specific commission, call, and revelation. Now he denies that man had any substantive part in the formation of his understanding of the gospel -- a point which he will develop in detail over the next...