Servants of God Cyprian and Daphrose Rugamba (m. 7 April 1994) |
οὐκ ἔνι ἄρσεν καὶ θῆλυ· πάντες γὰρ ὑμεῖς εἷς ἐστε ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ.
Gal 3:28 RSV.
"in the Lord woman is not independent of man nor man of woman;"
οὔτε γυνὴ χωρὶς ἀνδρὸς οὔτε ἀνὴρ χωρὶς γυναικὸς ἐν κυρίῳ·
1 Cor 11:11 RSV.
I was put onto this by Bernd Wannenwetsch, "Old docetism—new moralism: questioning a new direction in the homosexuality debate," Modern theology 16, no. 3 (July 2000): 357 (353-364), but have not reflected carefully upon these two passages (including the differences of vocabulary) in their respective contexts. It should be noted that Wannenwetsch himself twice inadvertently substitutes "Christ" for "Lord" in 1 Cor 11:11 ("If we hear that 'in Christ the man is not without the woman and the woman is not without the man' (1 Cor. 11:11), we have not simply a Christian confirmation of a natural fact—males are typically attracted by females and vice versa; rather we have the pneumatological ('in Christ') revelation of God’s primal will against all possible misinterpretations of this 'natural fact'"), though there are no variant readings to that effect in NA28.
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