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Old 04-02-2009, 09:29 PM   #28
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Different books do it to different extents. In some cases the context clearly refers to a single male; in other cases it's ambiguous. Did the people who wrote it *mean* one or the other in a certain place? No one knows. Did they mean males only, but that was merely a product of their Sitz im Leben and thus is no longer applicable? That's a theological debate.
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