I suspect that Warren’s main gripe with Barton was his [Barton’s] assumptions about ‘the mind of God’. It would be my ‘main gripe’ as well.

(In modern Greek, ??????? is generally translated as ‘history’, but can also mean ‘story’ or ‘love affair’, depending on the context.)

Etymologically speaking, Barton is no historian (genuine ‘enquiry’ simply doesn’t feature, it would seem). Throckmorton is one.

In Chapter 10 of Laelius:

“Well, then, my good friends, listen to some conversations about friendship which very frequently passed between Scipio and myself. I must begin by telling you, however, that he used to say that the most difficult thing in the world was for a friendship to remain unimpaired to the end of life. So many things might intervene: conflicting interests; differences of opinion in politics; frequent changes in character, owing sometimes to misfortunes, sometimes to advancing years. He used to illustrate these facts from the analogy of boyhood, since the warmest affections between boys are often laid aside with the boyish toga; and even if they did manage to keep them up to adolescence, they were sometimes broken by a rivalry in courtship, or for some other advantage to which their mutual claims were not compatible.”(1)

The word adulescentiam appears to be the original Latin(2).

And, isn’t the concept, at least, contained in 1 Cor 13:11 (KJV), “When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.” Sounds like adolescence to me.

1) http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/cicero-friendship.asp

2) The following source provides both Latin and an English translation, although the English translation doesn’t explicitly use “adolescence” unlike the translation above. From: http://www.grtbooks.com/exitfram.asp?idx=0&yr=1600&aa=CI&at=J&lst=9&ref=cicero&URL=http://www.uah.edu/student_life/organizations/SAL/texts/latin/classical/cicero/deamicitia.html

It’s limited to LATIN, surely?! LOL! (The word ‘adolescent’ is derived from the Latin ‘adolescere’ = to grow up.)

Dominus vobiscum! 🙂

(Sorry, Dave.)

Barton speaks with forked tongue! No wonder the man has the ability to pull the wool over the eyes of others. He is no more than a mountebank selling his snake oil from the back of his wagon.

I love the irony!

@ That Bad Dog

I love (what I assume is) the irony! (Your last two sentences are meant to be ironic, aren’t they? Just checking.)

But perhaps Barton would say that God saw that in the distant future, adolescence would be created by evil progressives and liberals, and so those portions of Proverbs would become necessary. I’m sure this information is located somewhere in his collection of original documents.

I suspect that Warren’s main gripe with Barton was his [Barton’s] assumptions about ‘the mind of God’. It would be my ‘main gripe’ as well.