Cheryl Schatz

I haven’t read the 10 Lies book but it is good to see that the Greek matches what I have been saying.  In my DVD I quote Thayer’s Greek-English Lexicon and also the Exegetical Dictionary of the New Testament edited by Horst Balz and Gerhard Schneider.  Thayer’s says this about the “n” that it is “before a sentence contrary to the one just preceeding, to indicate that if one be denied or refuted, the other must stand” and Thayer’s lists 1 Cor. 14:36 as an example of this.  The Exegetical Dictionary says that the “n” is “used frequently to introduce rhetorical questions to which a negative answer is expected” and it lists 1 Cor. 14:36 as such an example of this.

There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that the Greek construction has Paul refuting was has just proceeded verse 36 and the only way this could be logical is that Paul is not refuting himself but a quote from the Corinthians.