[Rocketman]

Love your tagline

You know i found some sermons online preaching from this quote.

Just a small thought but Paul the Apostle sat under the feet of Gameliel -- and he never says you know back before I was saved Gameliel used to say . . . And it is so true I think Gameliel has some real truth and insight . . .

Paul knew the treaching of all the great rabbis he knew probably every Jot and tittle in the Talmud but he never quotes from any of that.

I wonder if that might mean something?

[MarineBrat]

Seems as though I had Nietzsche spelled incorrectly. I pulled it out of an old tagline file I had when I was BBSing many years ago. Now fixed.

[jwpjr]

What an interesting observation! Paul prided himself in being the "Jew's Jew" and yet he never refers to anything having to do with his life before his experience on the road to Damascus. Thanks for the insight.

[Iatwttatl]

Paul always quotes from the Greek version of the Hebrew / Aramaic / Syriac Bible. The Greek version is called the Septuagint, and has significant differences from the mainly Hebrew; at the same time, he is vitally aware of Greek culture and its literary heritage; he was probably educated in Greek; while Aramaic was a second language to him. Usually, we speak of Paul or anyone else "sitting at the feet of" Gamaliel or any other mentor, not "sitting under the feet of ..." Gamaliel is said to have tawt 500 rabbinical students in Greek. Many synagogues in the Roman Empire were Greek-speaking and used the Septuagint; Jerusalem seems to have had some Greek-speaking Jewish synagogues, and Saint Stephen the Martyr who was murdered by Paul in a fanatical ritual killing was most likely Greek-speaking and a member of a growing Greek Christian element in a Greek-speaking Jewish synagogue.