Re: prove this statement with math?

> Titus 1:12
> Even one of their own prophets has said, "Cretans are always liars, evil
> brutes, lazy gluttons."
>
> So Paul has a Cretan saying this, hence the paradox. Surely Paul was
> making a reference to this paradox, wasn't he? I have to admit that this
> is a shear guess on my part, and I have absolutely no evidence to back up
> this claim.

I would have to say this is not a coincidence. The paradox was known just
two to four centuries earlier by a few Greeks, and Paul spoke Greek (he was
a Hellenized Jew).


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