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What? Try again. You previously addressed genesis and exodus. You yourself ignore their nuances (certainly the Genesis one), where Abraham is obviously referring to his non-biological sibling relative as a "brother" (even if he is also sweeping in the others referred to in the text; but he's...

Again, I believe you're on in partu virginity, which is related but distinct for present purposes, and in everything I'm saying I am bracketing that point for the time being.

What? Except to try to ignore it, you haven't responded to any of the historical data thats been provided. And while you've just repeated your talking points about the text ad nauseum and advanced a very garbled attempt at explaining away inconvenient scriptures, you haven't made sense of the...

No doubt, Origen is a complex figure. But his witness on this is consistent with all the historical data we have (amd another data point to corroborate it). Fast forward a century, and (I think literally) every ECF from across the globe that we have a record of espouses the doctrine, showing how...

Exercises in missing the point. Whoever is the beloved disciple, the point remains--Jesus wouldn't have needed to give his mother a new, adopted son, if she had another son (one who quickly became a believer after the resurrection, 1 Corinthians 15:7). And historically speaking, he likely...

You move goalposts as a pastime. It's comically bad faith by you. I gave you actual usage across the Koine period through to the NT time. Then you said give me dictionaries/lexicons and I'd "have a leg to stand on." Silly as that request was, I did. Now those are treated as if irrelevant. Now...

I mean, definitely just guides to doing the language work oneself as the ultimate goal, for sure. And no grammarian is infallible, of course. But helpful. And I am trying to cite to Protestant (specifically evangelical) authorities and avoid citing to Catholic authorities whenever possible...

Looks like the screenshots got clipped. O well. Buy the book, and then find someone to walk through it with you - it'd do you a world of good!

Please, marshall the evidence that contradicts Wallace's point. I am addding screenshots of the pages of his text. Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics (specifically, pp. 521-22), to help you in this endeavor. This isn't an appeal to authority - it's to point out that you, with your supposed one...

Maybe this will make sense when I get to the end of this thread, and maybe you will have responded to the points I made that have gone unanswered about the "quite common" use of present active indicative (according to an evangelical Greek scholar) to refer to states of being intended to be...

Another reason for this reading, beyond the immediate context and how the author uses "kai" in the verse itself, is that this reading is consistent with how the author likes to use "kai" in lists generally. John 2:11 is an example where each item in the list also gets separated by a "kai"...

And this is ultimately beside the point. But really just underscores your deep confusion coexisting simultaneously somehow with your professed proficiency. Whether Hebrew or Aramaic, in either language, their respective terms for "brother" were (even more?) undisputedly used to speak of other...

Then why do you steadfastly ignore both scripture and the historical record on this topic? (See my other comments) This is really garbled, but trying to make sense of it-- What? After berating others for being ungrammatical and setting yourself up as some kind of Koine authority, is your...

Not to overlook this-- Setting aside that it seems you're overplaying the scope of kinsman redeemership to pull a bit of sleight of hand here to try to wave this passage away (a preliminary review of the relevant OT passages in Leviticus and Ruth suggests, but I'd need to look more closely...

See my last comment about Luke 1. Who is torturing the meaning of the text (I ask rhetorically)? At best, you've picked and chosen scripture selectively ("until"! "brothers"!) and then forced your acontextual and ahistorical reading onto your preferred passages; while then trying to wave away...