Gordon Goltz wrote: GG>I am working on the pericope - 2 Corinthians 5.1-10 - for sermon preparation, and am wondering what to do with a section of verse 10 - besides scratch my head. Paul seems to be using some kind of Greek shorthand when he writes: TA DIA TOU SWMATOS PROS A EPRAXEN. Can someone out there help with this?> And Bill Barton answered: > hina: So that >hekastos: each one >komisetai: may be paid in kind >ta: things >pros ha eproxen: according to what he did >dia tou swmatos: while alive >eite agathon eite phaulon: whether good or bad >Eph. 6:8 and Col. 3:24-25 contain similar language and thought, and suggest >that "ta" in 2Cor 5:10 refers to rewards (and retribution?). On dia tou swmatos, the literal seems "through THE BODY," rather than "while alive." While Bill's "while alive" is implied, I think that the whole point is lost by just rendering it by its implication (just as the whole point of 2 Thess. 2:3 is similarly lost, by translators' imagined implication). I suggest that "through THE BODY" has reference, not to OUR bodies, directly, but rather to that BODY which is earlier called the Body of Christ (cp Bill's refs, plus 1 Pet. 4:17, 1 Cor. 12:12, Rom. 7:4, 1 Cor. 10:16, 12:27, Eph. 4:12, for starters). I'll elaborate on this privately to Bill and Gordon, and anyone else interested. Bob Christ Died to Save You Bill Barton --- B-Greek home page: http://sunsite.unc.edu/bgreek You are currently subscribed to b-greek as: [jwrobie@mindspring.com] To unsubscribe, forward this message to leave-b-greek-327Q@franklin.oit.unc.edu To subscribe, send a message to subscribe-b-greek@franklin.oit.unc.edu