[imardmd1]

Your "analysis" here fails because you have not considered it from a literal grammatical syntactical cultural contextual linguistic hermeneutic. Your description of the setting totally refuses to consider the chronology, but rejects those details found in the Greek text which nullifies your hypothesis.

In fact, your approach reads into the scripture a preconceived notion, and is thus eisegesis, an illegitimate way of interpreting God's word.

The above study uses proper methods of eisegesis, of deducing from the original inspired scripture essential elements that are not up to argumentation, and are thus the proper way to prepare for expository interpretation and application of the example to a person of our time claiming to be a "Christian," and able to instruct others in The Way.

Note that another reference is given by aimhigh in Post #4 comment to this article that also confirms this conclusion.

[annalex]

I stand by my posts on this thread.