Can someone explain how the word ἄφιξις has two diametrically opposed meanings: “departure” and “arrival”?
If the context where this word is used is not sufficient enough, is it impossible, based on the word’s etymology alone, to determine what it means in that context?
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- April 1st, 2020, 3:27 am
- Forum: New Testament
- Topic: Meanings of the Word ἄφιξις
- Replies: 4
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- November 3rd, 2019, 10:16 am
- Forum: Koine Greek Texts
- Topic: Meaning of a Text in Josephus' Jewish Antiquities
- Replies: 2
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Re: Meaning of a Text in Josephus' Jewish Antiquities
I was uncertain about the timing of the finish of the construction because of the way in which the text is rendered in Ralph Marcus’s translation: “At about this time Caesarea Sebaste, which Herod had been building, was completed. The entire work of construction was finished in the tenth year, the s...
- November 2nd, 2019, 6:24 am
- Forum: Koine Greek Texts
- Topic: Meaning of a Text in Josephus' Jewish Antiquities
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5976
Meaning of a Text in Josephus' Jewish Antiquities
Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, book 16, chapter 5: “Περὶ δὲ τὸν χρόνον τοῦτον συντέλειαν ἔλαβεν ἡ Καισάρεια Σεβαστή, ἣν ᾠκοδόμει, δεκάτῳ μὲν ἔτει πρὸς τέλος ἐλθούσης αὐτῷ τῆς ὅλης κατασκευῆς, ἐκπεσούσης δὲ τῆς προθεσμίας εἰς ὄγδοον καὶ εἰκοστὸν ἔτος τῆς ἀρχῆς, ἐπ᾿ ὀλυμπιάδος δευτέρας καὶ ἐνεν...
- September 6th, 2019, 11:19 am
- Forum: Koine Greek Texts
- Topic: Translation of the Words ἓν, ἤρξαντο, ἀναφορὰν ἔχειν
- Replies: 14
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Re: Translation of the Words ἓν, ἤρξαντο, ἀναφορὰν ἔχειν
Perhaps you meant to place your question in the beginners forum? It could be placed there. The word ἕν is not alone here. It is part of a phrase: πρὸς ἓν τέλος, which means "toward one end." The word ἕν "one" is neuter because it agrees with the word τέλος "end," which...
- September 5th, 2019, 2:17 pm
- Forum: Koine Greek Texts
- Topic: Translation of the Words ἓν, ἤρξαντο, ἀναφορὰν ἔχειν
- Replies: 14
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Re: Translation of the Words ἓν, ἤρξαντο, ἀναφορὰν ἔχειν
I am aware that the preposition εν means "in." But there is another word, ἕνος (which has the form ἓν), which is given a definition which seems to allow for the rendering “one” in some contexts. There is also the word ἑνάς (which likewise has the form ἓν), and it is shown to be the equival...
- September 4th, 2019, 5:10 pm
- Forum: Koine Greek Texts
- Topic: Translation of the Words ἓν, ἤρξαντο, ἀναφορὰν ἔχειν
- Replies: 14
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Translation of the Words ἓν, ἤρξαντο, ἀναφορὰν ἔχειν
Polybius, Histories, book 4, chapter 28, sections 3-4: “ἐπεὶ δὲ τά τε κατὰ τὴν Ἰταλίαν καὶ κατὰ τὴν Ἑλλάδα καὶ κατὰ τὴν Ἀσίαν τὰς μὲν ἀρχὰς τῶν πολέμων τούτων ἰδίας εἰλήφει τὰς δὲ συντελείας κοινάς, καὶ τὴν ἐξήγησιν περὶ αὐτῶν ἐκρίναμεν ποιήσασθαι κατ᾿ ἰδίαν, ἕως ἂν ἐπὶ τὸν καιρὸν ἔλθωμεν τοῦτον ἐν ...
- April 17th, 2019, 3:47 pm
- Forum: New Testament
- Topic: The Words Συντελεία and Τέλος in Mt 24
- Replies: 12
- Views: 12841
- February 8th, 2019, 7:51 am
- Forum: New Testament
- Topic: Identifying a Modern Greek Translation
- Replies: 0
- Views: 6116
Identifying a Modern Greek Translation
What modern Greek Bible version is the following text from? It is quoted on many websites, yet I do not see a reference to the version which it is taken from. The expression “σημάδι για το δικό σου ερχομό και για τη συντέλεια του κόσμου” is peculiar to this Bible translation. “Κι ενώ καθόταν πάνω στ...
- February 1st, 2019, 6:18 am
- Forum: Other Greek Texts
- Topic: Translation of the Phrase Τυγχάνει Συντελείας
- Replies: 0
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Translation of the Phrase Τυγχάνει Συντελείας
Is the phrase “τυγχάνει συντελείας” rendered as “bring to completion” in the below text? Is the most literal rendering of the word τυγχάνω “reach; arrive at” rather than “bring to”? In the text, the word seems to be used in the active rather than passive voice. Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, ...
- January 23rd, 2019, 7:18 am
- Forum: Church Fathers and Patristic Greek Texts
- Topic: Translation of the Words Καταστροφή, Συντέλεια, and Κατάλυσις
- Replies: 6
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Re: Translation of the Words Καταστροφή, Συντέλεια, and Κατάλυσις
Since the Greek text uses the phrase συντέλειαν τὴν κατάλυσιν (where the two words are linked by the article τὴν), this seems to indicate that the two words are rendered as “culminate and end” in the translation, which may mean that the translator changed the order of the renderings of the word κατα...