“By the Mouth of Two or Three Witnesses“ Paul's Invocation of a Deuteronomic Statute.
The history of interpretation of 2 Cor 13:1 has been dominated by a metaphorical construal of the “three witnesses” as Paul's three visits to Corinth. This essay proposes a literal understanding of the text: Paul invokes the Deuteronomic rule of judicial witnesses in his own defense, in accordance w...
| Publicado en: | Novum Testamentum Vol. 52; no. 3; pp. 207 - 221 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
Jun2010
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| Sumario: | The history of interpretation of 2 Cor 13:1 has been dominated by a metaphorical construal of the “three witnesses” as Paul's three visits to Corinth. This essay proposes a literal understanding of the text: Paul invokes the Deuteronomic rule of judicial witnesses in his own defense, in accordance with the purposes of the statute. The essay then explores the implications of this interpretation for reconstruction of what happened on the occasion of Paul's second, “painful” visit to Corinth. |
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