Tackling Tradition 93: Analogical Porneia
According to Bill Mounce, the lexical definition of porneia is as follows. Gloss sexual immorality, fornication, marital unfaithfulness, prostitution, adultery, a generic term for sexual sin of any kind Definition fornication, whoredom, Mt. 15:19; Mk. 7:21; Acts 15:20, 29; concubinage, Jn. 8:41; adultery,Mt. 5:32; 19:9; incest, 1 Cor. 5:1; lewdness, uncleanness, genr., Rom. 1:29; from the Hebrew, put symbolically for idolatry,Rev. 2:21; 14:8 I our previous two articles (Iverson On Divorce & Remarriage) we saw the way Mr. Iverson overlooks the fact that the term “adultery,” like the term “porneia,” is used by God in Jeremiah in figurative, analogical fashion. In Jeremiah 3:8, God says that he gave faithless Israel a certificate of divorce for her adulteries. Hosea’s major theme centers on a great big prophetic sign act in which God commands Hosea to marry Gomer who prostitutes herself so much that she is in the thrall of another lover, & although according to ...