Friday, December 06, 2024
Food and the Belly
Paul, 1 Corinthians 6:13 (tr. Joseph A. Fitzmyer):
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Food for the stomach, and the stomach for food, and God will do away with both the one and the other.A slogan of the Corinthians, according to some commentators. Some translators (including Fitzmyer) surround the sentence with quotation marks. NIV even adds words (underlined here) not in the Greek:
τὰ βρώματα τῇ κοιλίᾳ, καὶ ἡ κοιλία τοῖς βρώμασιν· ὁ δὲ θεὸς καὶ ταύτην καὶ ταῦτα καταργήσει.
You say, "Food for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will destroy them both."Note the chiasmus.
