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Calvin Smith adds,  

Calvin Smith adds,  

Wright  has  highlighted  a  major  problem  here.  If  Paul  simply borrowed an existing vice list referring to very general sexual vices, including widespread and very general forms of pederasty, how can Scroggs then suggest Paul  is  identifying a very precise  form of this vice?<ref>Wright, `Homosexuality: The Relevance of the Bible’ (op. cit.), 296.</ref> A number of other exegetes concur.  .... example, malakos could mean `call-boy', or something similar, and both  words  together  could  be  referring  to  the  active  and  passive roles  in  the  homosexual  act  (thus  malakos  would  be  the  male But Malick argues the terms clearly  mean  more  than  this,  that  linguistically  they  cannot  be limited  to  this  understanding  alone  (other  traditionalists  agree).<ref>http://www.theologicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/homosexuality_revisited.pdf</ref.

Wright  has  highlighted  a  major  problem  here.  If  Paul  simply borrowed an existing vice list referring to very general sexual vices, including widespread and very general forms of pederasty, how can Scroggs then suggest Paul  is  identifying a very precise  form of this vice?<ref>Wright, `Homosexuality: The Relevance of the Bible’ (op. cit.), 296.</ref> A number of other exegetes concur.  .... example, malakos could mean `call-boy', or something similar, and both  words  together  could  be  referring  to  the  active  and  passive roles  in  the  homosexual  act  (thus  malakos  would  be  the  male But Malick argues the terms clearly  mean  more  than  this,  that  linguistically  they  cannot  be limited  to  this  understanding  alone  (other  traditionalists  agree).<ref>[http://www.theologicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/homosexuality_revisited.pdf Homosexuality Revisited in Light of the

Current Climate1]</ref.

Ukleja also has identified these terms in several examples of classical Greek literature, which  clearly  refer  to  homosexuals.<ref>P.  Michael  Ukleja,  `Homosexuality  in  the  New Testament' in Bibliotheca Sacra 140 (1983).</ref>

Michael  Ukleja also has identified these terms in several examples of classical Greek literature, which  clearly  refer  to  homosexuals.<ref>P.  Michael  Ukleja,  `Homosexuality  in  the  New Testament' in Bibliotheca Sacra 140 (1983).</ref>

Gagnon concludes, "the term arsenokoitai is not restricted to homosexual prostitution. Boswell was clearly wrong. Robin Scroggs back in 1983<ref>The New Testament and Homosexuality</ref> acknowledged these two points, though Scroggs himself was wrong in other ways."<ref>http://www.robgagnon.net/articles/homoBalchHBTReview2.pdf</ref>

Gagnon concludes, "the term arsenokoitai is not restricted to homosexual prostitution. Boswell was clearly wrong. Robin Scroggs back in 1983<ref>The New Testament and Homosexuality</ref> acknowledged these two points, though Scroggs himself was wrong in other ways."<ref>http://www.robgagnon.net/articles/homoBalchHBTReview2.pdf</ref>