“God Is Witness” A Classical Rhetorical Idiom in Its Pauline Usage.
Five times in the undisputed letters Paul invokes God as guarantor of the truth of a claim with a form of the phrase “God is witness.” Interpreters have long identified these sayings as self-imprecatory oaths after a pattern attested in the Hebrew Bible. In this article, I argue that the Pauline phr...
| Publicado en: | Novum Testamentum Vol. 52; no. 4; pp. 355 - 376 |
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