01-04-2007, 02:16 AM
:) Obviously Christians will tend to go for definition 'a', which states that it is cleverness in a good sense. However, when we read the rest of the verse...
Be that as it may, I have not been a burden to you. Yet, crafty (panourgos) fellow that I am, I caught you by trickery (dolos)!
The word for trickery here is dolos, which could mean...
1) craft, deceit, guile
Source: http://www.blueletterbible.org/tmp_dir/w...-1025.html
This word is always used in a negative way...
Matthew 26:4
and they plotted to arrest Jesus in some sly (dolos) way and kill him.
Mark 7:22
greed, malice, deceit (dolos) lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly.
Mark 14:1
:D