On Sun, 17 Sep 2000 07:11:04 -0500 "Carl W. Conrad" writes: > At 9:36 PM -0400 9/16/00, Dmitriy Reznik wrote: > >Dear friends: > > > >Will you please help me with understanding of 1Cor 13:6: > >[Love] OUK CAIREI EPI THi ADIKIAi SUGCAIREI DE THi ALHQHIAi? > > > >I would like to get meaning of SUGCAIREI DE THi ALHQHIAi. Is it "rejoices > >with the truth"? Or "rejoices in the truth"? Or something else? This one got my attention this morning, since I happen to be preaching on this passage in a couple of hours. The difference between this passage and Eph 4:15 is the articular construction of ALHQEIA, as well as ADIKIA. Certainly there is a contrast being drawn here, but I am inclined to take the articular THi ADIKIA as a reference to the falsehood of finding joy in the practice of lawlessness (THN ANOMIAN, Mt 7:23) versus the joy of practicing the truth, that is, obedience to the law of God. True agape is absent in those who practice lawlessness, but present in those who obey the true way. Paul Dixon > > Admittedly this verse is puzzling, and one hasn't gone very far > toward > understanding it if one doesn't get beyond, "doesn't rejoice at > injustice > but shares joy in truth." In the paraphrase that I did for my > daughter's > wedding several years ago I converted the Greek text of this verse > as: > > "Loving-kindness isn't pleased > when someone gets hurt; > what really thrills it > is integrity winning out." > > That might seem hard to justify, but it does seem to me that ALHQEIA > here > must be intended as an antithesis of ADIKIA. Moreover I've always > been > inclined to think that the real sense of the phrase ALHQEUEIN EN > AGAPHi in > Eph 4:15 must mean not simply "speak the truth," as it's commonly > turned, > but rather, "be honest, be honorable, display integrity." For that > reason I > would like to understand verse 6 of 1 Cor 13 in terms of the > perspective > that AGAPH or (more properly speaking) hO AGAPWN holds regarding > ADIKIA and > ALHQEIA. Once having reached that point, the antithesis involved > seems > rather that between "wrongdoing" and "acting with integrity." > > At any rate, that's what I think about this. But I think it's a very > good > and very worthwhile question, and I'd like to see what others think > about > it. > > -- > > Carl W. Conrad > Department of Classics/Washington University > One Brookings Drive/St. Louis, MO, USA 63130/(314) 935-4018 > Home: 7222 Colgate Ave./St. Louis, MO 63130/(314) 726-5649 > cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu > WWW: http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~cwconrad/ > > --- > B-Greek home page: http://metalab.unc.edu/bgreek > You are currently subscribed to b-greek as: dixonps@juno.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 > > --- B-Greek home page: http://metalab.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