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Interesting argument. So the "keys" only represent this power to bind and loose. Which you then further claim is meant for all Christians. You certainly are making a lot out of a colon, a colon which isn't even evident in the RSV. And considering colons aren't in the original Greek anyway....

Mistating me again, as usual. I didn't make a lot out of a colon. I merely said the colon was entered to show what the greek shows by absence of caps - that the thought is continuing to be fleshed out within the verse. The verse is not expressing two or three independant thoughts, the two statements about binding and loosing flow from the same thought as the statement of the keys - the thought did not change. No change of thought means no differentiation between the keys and the notion of "binding and loosing". Care to respond to what was really said, this time.

The verse is not expressing two or three independant thoughts, the two statements about binding and loosing flow from the same thought as the statement of the keys - the thought did not change. No change of thought means no differentiation between the keys and the notion of "binding and loosing".

Anytime this construct is used in Greek, it means there is no differentiation between the thoughts? Or does it just mean they are related thoughts, tied together, but not "undifferentiated."

(Wow, that reads like one of the sentences a few weeks ago about "Begotten.")