{"id":2513,"date":"2013-03-22T07:59:38","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T14:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tgdarkly.com\/blog\/?p=2513"},"modified":"2013-03-22T07:59:38","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T14:59:38","slug":"paul-love-all-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/2013\/03\/22\/paul-love-all-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul:  Love &#8230; All Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been reflecting lately on the Apostle Paul&#8217;s &#8220;love chapter,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=1%20Corinthians%2013&amp;version=NASB\">1 Corinthians 13<\/a>, particular on verse 7.\u00a0 Love, Paul says, &#8220;bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things&#8221; (NASB).\u00a0 What is the force of the term &#8220;all things&#8221; in this powerful statement?\u00a0 In Paul&#8217;s original Greek, the phrasing is beautifully poetic:\u00a0 \u03c0\u03ac\u03bd\u03c4\u03b1 \u03c3\u03c4\u03ad\u03b3\u03b5\u03b9, \u03c0\u03ac\u03bd\u03c4\u03b1 \u03c0\u03b9\u03c3\u03c4\u03b5\u03cd\u03b5\u03b9, \u03c0\u03ac\u03bd\u03c4\u03b1 \u1f10\u03bb\u03c0\u03af\u03b6\u03b5\u03b9, \u03c0\u03ac\u03bd\u03c4\u03b1 \u1f51\u03c0\u03bf\u03bc\u03ad\u03bd\u03b5\u03b9 (<em>panta stegei, panta pisteauei, panta elpizei, panta hypomenei).\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>Notice the alliteration in the repetitive use of &#8220;<em>panta<\/em>&#8221; (all things) and the rhyme of the active verb endings (<em>ei<\/em>).\u00a0 I can imagine Paul dictating this phrase to his amaneunsis, getting more excited as he repeats each <em>panta<\/em>.\u00a0 Try reciting it out loud: \u00a0<em>agap\u0113<\/em>\u00a0<em>panta stegei, panta pisteauei, panta elpizei, panta hypomenei.\u00a0 <\/em>Let it sink deep into your soul:\u00a0 there is nothing to which love fails to respond with patience, faith, hope, and endurance.\u00a0 Nothing.\u00a0 All things &#8212; <em>panta, panta, panta<\/em> &#8212; love regards with patience, faith, hope, and endurance.\u00a0 <em>Panta, panta, panta<\/em> <em>agap\u0113<\/em> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been reflecting lately on the Apostle Paul&#8217;s &#8220;love chapter,&#8221; 1 Corinthians 13, particular on verse 7.\u00a0 Love, Paul says, &#8220;bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things&#8221; (NASB).\u00a0 What is the force of the term &#8220;all things&#8221; in this powerful statement?\u00a0 In Paul&#8217;s original Greek, the phrasing is beautifully poetic:\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31,74,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biblical-studies","category-spirit","category-spirituality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p824rZ-Ex","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}