Since there was a particular verse that I had in mind, I would like to use it here. If you don't mind. I am not a scholar, and I don't even know what hermaneutics or exegesis means. So, here is my little effort here.. I will talk about the one you mentioned (about being bound) in another post.. also.. just a note here, my adulterous lover who is married to me legally, is getting very irritated that I am threatening to throw shoes at my computer, and that I am revisiting this issue. So I may not be able to participate in this discussion too much longer this evening. BUt then.. maybe since I am not really marrie to him, I won't have to submit! hmmm <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/uptosomething.gif" alt="" /> anyway.. here goes:

I am going to refer to 1 Cor. 7 here. I posted this just recently on another board. So if it doesn't make sense.. just try and understand. It is referring mainly to vs. 27-28.

Concerning vs. 27-28, John Piper (I think it was him) says that the word "loosed" there means dead. The man has been loosed in the sense that he has been widowed. Let's restate it in that context. Are you bound (married) to a wife? Do not seek to kill her (be loosed.) Are you loosed (widowed) from a wife? Do not seek to be bound (married.) Does that even make sense?? No. And it doesn't make sense when you add vs. 28. BUT.. EVEN IF YOU DO marry, you have not sinned. John piper et. al. say that that particular part of the verse is referring to virgins.. but in that context, it would say, "but even if you (virgins) do marry, you have not sinned, and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned." I am thinking Paul was not repeating himself there.

Here is what the word "loosed" means in the greek as in vs. 27 1st use:

lusis {loo'-sis}

Outline of Biblical Usage
1) a loosing, setting free

a) of a prisoner

of the bond of marriage, divorce

2) release, ransoming, deliverance

a) of liquidating a debt

and, as 2nd use:

luo {loo'-o}

Outline of Biblical Usage
1) to loose any person (or thing) tied or fastened

a) bandages of the feet, the shoes,

of a husband and wife joined together by the bond of matrimony

c) of a single man, whether he has already had a wife or has not yet married

2) to loose one bound, i.e. to unbind, release from bonds, set free

a) of one bound up (swathed in bandages)

bound with chains (a prisoner), discharge from prison, let go

3) to loosen, undo, dissolve, anything bound, tied, or compacted together

a) an assembly, i.e. to dismiss, break up

laws, as having a binding force, are likened to bonds

c) to annul, subvert

d) to do away with, to deprive of authority, whether by precept or act

e) to declare unlawful

f) to loose what is compacted or built together, to break up, demolish, destroy

g) to dissolve something coherent into parts, to destroy

h) metaph., to overthrow, to do away with

AV - loose 27, break 5, unloose 3, destroy 2, dissolve 2, put off 1,
melt 1, break up 1, break down 1; 43

3) means or power of releasing or loosing

Vs. 28 says, but if they DO remarry, they have not sinned. This is in context of remaining in the state in which we were called.

More later.. if we don't get in trouble.

Michele