Jeffrey A. D. Weima
on 2 Thess 3:6-15, 1-2 Thessalonians, Baker exegetical commentary on the
New Testament (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker
Academic, 2014), 627, but without Weima’s transliteration and more of the Greek (which I have taken from pp.
140-141 of the 1916 LCL edition ed. and trans. Haines). Underscoring and boldface mine.
Marcus Aurelius is invoking the dirty competitor figuratively: "Act much in the same way in all the other parts of life. Let us make many allowances for our fellow-athletes as it were. Avoidance is always possible [(ἔξεστι . . . ἐκκλίνειν)], as I have said, without suspicion or hatred."
And so a flat or bemused tolerance, as it were, but no fraternal correction.
Saturday, February 6, 2021
A flat or bemused tolerance, as it were, but no fraternal correction
"The emperor Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) gives a similar
instruction on how to deal with someone who behaves rudely in the
gymnasium: 'We keep an eye on him, not
though as an enemy nor from suspicion of
him but with good-humored avoidance [(καίτοι φυλαττόμεθα, οὐ μέντοι ὡς ἐχθρόν οὐδὲ
μεθ' ὑποψίας, ἀλλ' ἐκκλίσεως εὐμενοῦς)]' (Med. 6.20). Unlike Paul, however, Aurelius demonstrates
no interest in the reform of this offensive person and 'recognizes no duty of
remonstrance towards the offender ὡς ἀδελφόν' ([as a brother; ]Moffatt
1901)."
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