While it’s certainly refreshing to see an oftentimes ardent anti-Protestant polemicist such as yourself citing the Apostle Paul and holding him in apparently high esteem, I fail to see the disagreement between what I wrote and what you wrote.
No doubt native speakers of Greek grasp the Greek language better than those for whom it is a secondary language. But, what does that have to do with the subject at hand? Synergy? Of course there is synergy. There is no other way, whether man recognizes this or doesn’t.
Care to elaborate?
Why wouldn’t I hold St. Paul in high esteem? The only problem I have is with Protestants twisting his words to conform with their partisan biases.
Remember 2 Peter 3:15-16 NIV
Bear in mind that our Lord’s patience means salvation, just as our dear brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom that God gave him. He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.
Textual exegesis requires a cultural and linguistic understanding to remove contemporary biases.
Consequently, the Greeks understand the cultural and linguistic meanings of St. Paul’s writings better than Western Europeans or their descendants. They don’t believe in Monergism, which has been a hallmark of Protestant theology and never have.
I’d say that a lack of this sort of understanding has hampered Western Christian Biblical exegesis at least since St. Augustine’s day.