Matt. 6:11

yochanan bitan ButhFam at compuserve.com
Sun Nov 1 16:06:34 EST 1998


>"assuming" . . .
epiousios is purposefully chosen/coined as a rare coinage "cominglyous" (an
adjective built on the common participle epiousa [fs])
 we might look for an underlying Hebrew prayer that was idiomatic and
untranslatable 'word for word' behind this phrase--
this has led more than one researcher to proverbs 30.8 as a conceptual fit.
 leHem Huqqi "bread of my alotment/right" = NJV "my daily bread"!
the difficulty of translation to Greek [notice the LXX at prov 30.8] could
explain why such a strange/unique greek word was developed. 
it is significant that both MT and LK keep this unpredictable Greek word. 

erroso
randall buth



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