What do you think of one reason Gordon Fee revised his 1 Corinthians commentary? Is the trade off worth the change? A third, probably less significant, change ...was to eliminate the language of “chapter and verse,” a system of numbers absolutely essential for “finding things” but otherwise totally foreign to the first-century author. Paul wrote words put into sentences, which in the present written culture also require paragraphs. But he did not write “verses,” language that has inherently, but not purposefully, created a misguided use of Scripture that would be foreign to the original authors. So I have tried to relegate the numbers to parentheses, rather than use such language in the text of the commentary itself. This in itself required a third and final reading of the text in an attempt to be faithful to Paul, while still trying to help the reader “find things” regarding the rest of the biblical revelation. Could we do w/o verse divisions?
Posted on: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 15:07:07 +0000
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