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Bible Note: TDNT is the standard abbreviation for the mutli-volume (about 2.5 feet of shelf space!) Theological Dictionary of the New Testament. Unfortunately, all my books are at my sister's place and so I cannot tell you which scholar wrote the article. Here's part of what I wrote up on this in a sermon on Romans: "(The Greek word used here "doulos" is "the most abject, servile term used by the Greeks to denote a slave."(9) So, it should be translated as "slave" and not as "servant."(10))" 9) Wuest, 11. 10) contra Black, 19; Godet, 74; Wenham, 121 allows both interpretations, although on page 1 he uses just "slave". Bruce, 67; Edwards, 26; Fitzmyer, 3, 227, 231; Hodge, 15; LABC, 2; Sproul, 21. Here's the biblio for the above: Barton, Bruce B., David R. Veerman, Neil Wilson Life Application Bible Commentary. (Tyndale House Publishers: Wheaton, IL: 1992) abbreviated in footnotes as LABC. Black, Matthew Romans. New Century Bible Commentary. Second edition. (Wm. B. Eerdmans Pub. Co.: Grand Rapids, MI: 1973) Bruce, F. F. Romans. Revised Edition. Tyndale New Testament Commentaries. (Wm. B. Eerdmans Pub. Co.: Grand Rapids, MI: 1985, 1994 reprint) Edwards, James R. Romans. New International Biblical Commentary. (Hendrickson Publishers: Peabody MA: 1992) Fitzmyer, Joseph A. Romans. Anchor Bible, vol. 33. (Anchor Bible/Doubleday: New York: 1993) Godet, Frederic L. Commentary on Romans. (Kregel Publications: Grand Rapids, MI: 1977 reprint, orig. 1883) Hodge, Charles Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans. (Wm. B. Eerdmans Pub. Co.: Grand Rapids, MI: 1864, 1994 reprint) Sproul, R. C. Romans. (Christian Focus Publications: 1994) Wuest, Kenneth S. Wuest's Word Studies Romans in the Greek New Testament. (Wm. B. Eerdmans: Grand Rapids, MI: 1955) |