πλάνη active or passive sense.
Posted: February 26th, 2014, 2:00 pm
ἡ γὰρ παράκλησις ἡμῶν οὐκ ἐκ πλάνης οὐδὲ ἐξ ἀκαθαρσίας οὐδὲ ἐν δόλῳ, [1 Thessalonians 2:3]
Most take πλάνη here and elsewhere in the New Testament in the passive sense of error (having been deceived); but some in the active sense of deceit (the action or practice of deceiving others).
I am trying to make sense of the BDAG entry, and have three questions.
Their definition is 'wandering fr. the path of truth, error, delusion, deceit, deception to which one is subject.'
1) I don't understand how 'deceit' can be given as a possible translation, since by definition it refers to the action or practice of deceiving others, not to being subject to deceit.
2) 'see New Docs 2, 94 on frequent use in pap in sense of 'deceit' ' Well, I looked this up in Horsley 'New Documents etc., vol.2':
and it seems to me to say the opposite. It gives one instance from BGU 1208 (of αὐθεντεῖν fame) where it has been taken to mean deceit, and then says that the passive sense of 'error, delusion' is attested by a number of papyri. So is BDAG in error itself here?
3) Sorry for my ignorance, but I am not sure what BDAG means by 'in our literature'. Is it distinguishing it from the papyri - ie in the papyri it often (it claims) means 'deceit' (which I am taking to be in the active sense of deceiving), but 'in our literature' it is used only in the passive sense. I would have thought that the literature (in a broad sense) that BDAG is interested in would have included koine papyri.
Andrew
Most take πλάνη here and elsewhere in the New Testament in the passive sense of error (having been deceived); but some in the active sense of deceit (the action or practice of deceiving others).
I am trying to make sense of the BDAG entry, and have three questions.
Their definition is 'wandering fr. the path of truth, error, delusion, deceit, deception to which one is subject.'
1) I don't understand how 'deceit' can be given as a possible translation, since by definition it refers to the action or practice of deceiving others, not to being subject to deceit.
2) 'see New Docs 2, 94 on frequent use in pap in sense of 'deceit' ' Well, I looked this up in Horsley 'New Documents etc., vol.2':
and it seems to me to say the opposite. It gives one instance from BGU 1208 (of αὐθεντεῖν fame) where it has been taken to mean deceit, and then says that the passive sense of 'error, delusion' is attested by a number of papyri. So is BDAG in error itself here?
3) Sorry for my ignorance, but I am not sure what BDAG means by 'in our literature'. Is it distinguishing it from the papyri - ie in the papyri it often (it claims) means 'deceit' (which I am taking to be in the active sense of deceiving), but 'in our literature' it is used only in the passive sense. I would have thought that the literature (in a broad sense) that BDAG is interested in would have included koine papyri.
Andrew