Mark

Cheryl,

Your attempt to criticise me for ignoring the context doesn’t seem to hold. Let’s face the fact’s. You are beginning with the slave/master metaphor and the verb attached to it. You come to a conclusion on the meaning of that section AND THEN go back to hypotasso and argue for a meaning that never exists when one person is told to submit to another.

Sure you may be looking at the ‘context’ but you are not actually looking at the ‘context’. You work backwards in your exegesis in this passage.

It is pretty clear we are never going to agree on this matter- how can we expect to when our hermeneutics are so vastly different.

Let me encourage everyone here to perhaps devote more energy to giving a realist alternative to a comp interpretation. You can argue till your black in the face about the meanings of words and verbs etc, but let’s face it, the alternative you offer is weak- very weak. It seems that egals are so caught up in disproving their opposition that they forgot to think about their alternative. That’s my two cents worth.