Document Type

Article

Abstract

Modern scholarship is divided on the interpretation of πάσχω in Gal. 3.4, and there has yet to be a definitive study on the subject attempting to rectify the disagreements. The clear consensus prior to the late seventeenth century was that πάσχω possessed negative connotations in this passage. This interpretation was briefly challenged by Justus Christoph Schomer (1648–1693), influencing the majority of German scholarship and creating a major polarity among scholars in the English-speaking world. After making this history of interpretation known, the present study tries to demonstrate that, lexically, thematically and contextually, the preferable interpretation regards πάσχω as a reference to suffering, in keeping with the longstanding interpretative tradition.

Department(s)

Seminary

Publication Title

Journal for the Study of the New Testament

Volume

36

Issue

1

First Page

3

Last Page

16

Publication Date

2013

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1177/0142064X13480086

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