struggling with the CT solecism - lets swing back to "The Living God"

Steven Avery

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1 Timothy 3:15-16
But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God,
which is the church of the living God,
the pillar and ground of the truth.
And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness:

God was manifest in the flesh,
justified in the Spirit,
seen of angels,
preached unto the Gentiles,
believed on in the world,
received up into glory.


This came up on CARM:
https://forums.carm.org/vb5/forum/t...oncur-about-the-kabod-yahweh-apparently/page8

ACAinstructor said:
One of the instances of "incarnation" is 1 Tim 3:16, where Paul uses a relative pronoun to refer back to "The Living God" in v.15, says "who manifest in flesh," ]
Using the Greek ultra-minority critical text, with the solecism, this attempt is barely supported by anybody.

Partly because you can not easily grammatically separate Living God, which is adjectival, from the full phrase "the church of the Living
God", and try to make it a distant noun referent.


Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 48 (1896)
edited by Sir Leslie Stephen
https://books.google.com/books?id=7sEPAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA142

Gives John Berriman study.
Ebenezer Henderson shows idea to be deficient.

The Congregational magazine (1830)
https://books.google.com/books?id=b_UDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA601
 
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