Chapter V Addendum – Aorist Expansion
As you are now aware, in the prior article, we discussed the aorist tense. It is argued – without grounds – that the beginning of this passage, concerning Christ being inherently in the form of God, should be interpreted as to take place at the end of the passage, conveniently somewhere between Phil. 2:8-9, so that Christ’s place at the beginning of the universe can be dismissed. For starters, such an opinion is so emphatically wrong, that if anyone is genuinely telling you this with a straight face, you may have every reason to dismiss their future expositions, since they are so clearly disagreeable and unknowledgeable concerning the Greek language. With all boldness and love, I say that such an argument frustrates me (Stephen) quite a bit, especially if a believer in Paul’s evangel is genuinely claiming it. It is baffling, and so unequivocally incorrect that I do not trust myself to refute it without discarding social niceties, as my apostle did on many occasions (Gal. 3:1, 2 Cor. 1...