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Craig – sorry for the mix up.

Mark – I will have to take a look at Hosea. I have not studied in depth. As far as lexicons go, I have never met an expert yet who didn;t have an agenda. But we discussed that at length in another thread so no use reviving it here. My point, although possibly slightly “overstated”, is that the lexicon you refer to seems to offer opinion on the definition of the word rather than actual demonstrable proof. And the author seems to have a stunning (our new favorite word 🙂 ) misunderstanding of how a metaphor works. For the metaphor to mean what your lexicon says it means in 2a, Paul and the Greeks of the time would have to have the view that the anatomical head is the lord and master of the anatomical body. But that is demonstrably false.