{"id":650,"date":"2012-08-02T17:38:57","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T00:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/?p=650"},"modified":"2012-08-03T20:07:23","modified_gmt":"2012-08-04T03:07:23","slug":"weak-heirs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/?p=650","title":{"rendered":"Weak Heirs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read a comment a blog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatmom.com\/2012\/07\/30\/does-it-matter-what-we-believe-about-complementarianism\/comment-page-1\/#comment-28409\">despairing of how to explain<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=1%20peter%203:6&amp;version=NKJV\">1 Peter 3:6<\/a> and I felt sympathetic, so I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatmom.com\/2012\/07\/30\/does-it-matter-what-we-believe-about-complementarianism\/comment-page-1\/#comment-28526\">offered my thoughts<\/a>. (Later I realized an earlier commenter had already linked to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ericpazdziora.com\/writing\/the-myth-of-the-weaker-vessel\/\">basically the same argument<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>What I wrote is my best take on this passage, but I am not confident that &#8220;weaker vessel&#8221; does convey the sense of &#8220;delicate, i.e. expensive, valuable&#8221; in the Greek. Also, even if in Aramaic the word for husband and master was naturally related, that doesn&#8217;t mean the expression or the sense of it would convey to the Greek audience of 1 Peter. And it is very strange that the context for the only reference for Sarah calling Abraham &#8216;lord&#8217; that I am aware of is Sarah doubting God and being afraid (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Genesis%2018:13-15&amp;version=NKJV\">Genesis 18:13-15<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>In the end I let the tone of 1 Peter and the themes of the New Testament direct my understanding of this verse; but I think it is difficult, and in the immediate text I am not satisfied that I have accounted for everything that is meant.<\/p>\n<p>(Edit: I have been corrected on points by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatmom.com\/2012\/07\/30\/does-it-matter-what-we-believe-about-complementarianism\/comment-page-1\/#comment-28602\">Leah<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read a comment a blog despairing of how to explain 1 Peter 3:6 and I felt sympathetic, so I offered my thoughts. (Later I realized an earlier commenter had already linked to basically the same argument). What I wrote is my best take on this passage, but I am not confident that &#8220;weaker vessel&#8221; does convey the sense of <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/?p=650\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=650"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":652,"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions\/652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}