Jude 9 (Archangel--First in command and/or time?)
Stevens, Charles C
Charles.Stevens at unisys.com
Wed Dec 22 19:57:11 EST 1999
Grant Polle wrote:
<<Since it no doubt has the prefix "ARXH",>>
Ummm... That, as stated, is not a conclusion to which I am prepared to jump,
much less one from which I am prepared to draw further conclusions!
<<what can it this be interpreted to mean?>>
The verb ARXW means "rule, reign". The noun ARXWN means "ruler, prince,
leader". The noun ARXITRIKLINOS means "superintendent of a dining room".
In fact, in the plural the noun ARXH can mean "magistrates, rulers".
I think the prefix is better expressed "ARX-", and I also am reasonably
certain that the *first* sense of this prefix is "primary, ranking, ruling",
and only secondarily "earliest in time", and even then that latter sense
seems at least in the NT and the LXX to be limited to the noun ARXH and the
adjective ARXAIOS. Furthermore, I would suggest that ARXAIOS actually comes
from ARX- and AION, in which case the sense of "time" is actually supplied
almost exclusively by the root and not the prefix!
<<a) the highest ranking angel? (as I have learned it)>>
So it seems to me, and I see nothing that would lead me to believe
otherwise.
What lexicon are you using, and what does it say?
<<Are there other examples where ARXH is used as a prefix?>>
Well, not ARXH as such, but ARX, yes, a fair number, and more still in the
LXX, all with the meaning "ranking, ruling, primary, chief, head".
-Chuck Stevens
-Chuyc
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