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From: yiri@ucf-cs.UUCP (David)
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Subject: Re: RE:Christians and Saints
Message-ID: <1466@ucf-cs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 4-Sep-84 08:25:41 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  4 08:25:41 1984
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The reference to I Cor. 6:12 (not 5:12) is more
accurately rendered as follows:

"All things are conceivable for me, however, not
all things bring-things-together. All things are
conceivable for me, however I will not be addicted
to any."

Read the codex sinaiticus, vaticanus, papyrii
and Peshitta rather than "Christianized"
versions.

The interpretation then is that while we conceive
of many things, not all of them are beneficial;
and while we may conceive of many things, we
should not be addicted to any of them.

There is nothing there about extra-Torah things
being "permissible". That was a notion introduced
later by non-Jews of the Roman Empire. Again I
refer readers to the Interpreter's Dictionary
of the Bible, Text NT, Abingdon Press which ack-
nowledges that such "evolution" of the scriptures
indeed took place and is evidenced by comparisons
of manuscripts of the different periods.