tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19219922.post1243574743931770991..comments2024-03-03T21:51:46.662-05:00Comments on stylos: Word Magazine No. 32: John Piper on the Pericope Adulterae. Part 2: Can we preach from (supposedly) uninspired texts?Jeffrey T. Riddlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374856944409335186noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19219922.post-62845311398810384662014-12-06T21:18:13.208-05:002014-12-06T21:18:13.208-05:00Phil,
Thanks for your comment. I do think you ar...Phil,<br /><br />Thanks for your comment. I do think you are right that JP feels conflict between his relatively mainstream academic training and his efforts to hold to an evangelical approach to the Bible.<br /><br />I just read an interesting article today from W. L. Peterson who made reference to the Augustine citation. Edward F. Hills offers this translation of it: "Certain persons of little faith,or rather enemies of the true faith, fearing, I suppose, lest their wives should be given to impunity in sinning, removed from their manuscripts the Lord’s act of forgiveness toward the adulteress, as if He who had said ‘sin no more’ had granted permission to sin” (The KJV Defended, p. 151). So, Augustine knew the PA (c. 400) and also knew that it was a controversial passage which had been removed by some misguided, hyper-pious persons.<br /><br />JTRJeffrey T. Riddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16374856944409335186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19219922.post-14394104122102990512014-12-06T07:55:06.231-05:002014-12-06T07:55:06.231-05:00This is very good. You did an excellent job at cal...This is very good. You did an excellent job at calling Piper on this problem! I went to seminary for a year (Couldn't finish, $$), and everything that D.A. Carson and Bruce Metzger has put forward is what I heard in my New Testament and Systematic Theology classes. Piper's view is the work of a Politician, whether he intends it to be so or not. I don't doubt that he is sincere. I personally think he is conflicted. He grew up with an AV (KJV) and his father was an evangelist. I imagine he probably remembers his father leading people to Christ, perhaps from this text even. It is a powerful testimony, but his rigorous seminary background and kinship to Carson is also strong. He is the proverbial fence rider. Whatever his intention, the doubt he is casting is more damaging than he intends. To get the public to take the bitter poison, you must administer it in small portions. I remember reading a quote from Augustine translated into English. I am paraphrasing, but I remember reading that he testified that people were removing the Pericope Adulterae from their Bibles because they had a "prudish fear" that it would promote adultery.Phil Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02752045605704569789noreply@blogger.com