1 Peter 2:19

Maurice A. O'Sullivan mauros at iol.ie
Wed Jun 9 18:53:55 EDT 1999


 >Thanks to John and Maurice for their responses to my post on 1 Peter
>2:19.  I don't have access to Spicq or the _Exegetical Dictionary_ (alas)
>and my copy of TDNT is in a box in Chicago.  If you could find the time
>to summarize some of Spicq, that would be greatly appreciated.

John:
In the light of your two points below, I'll beg off summarizing those five
pages of Spicq,  devoted mainly to a a survery of Hellenistic usage, rather
than to the specific grammatical points you raise  --- though I cannot
resist quoting:

" rhe first known papyrological occurrence [ of SUNEIDHSIS ] is from AD 59,  
A former soldier, Lucius Pamiseus, having met a convoy of donkeys loaded
with stones, led by a slave, received a violent kick from one of the
donkeys. The terrified slave look flight: -- 'the slave, aware of his
crime, fled' . He acted not out  of remorse but out of the fear of the
punishment that he might receive" 
and then follows a footnote citing Philo _Virtues_ 124

So you see why I'm begging off <g>


>(1) Can the genitive QEOU be rendered "with regard to" or "toward God"? 
>Is that reading -- adopted by many -- possible for the genitive?  At this
>point, taking it as an objective genitive ("consciousness of God") seems
>to make more sense to me.

Zerwick, Grosvenor [ A Grammatical Analysis of the GNT ( Rome ) ] render
DIA S...  QEOU as:
_in (ful) consciousness of God_ , involving moral obligation, _with God in
mind  _

I see that G. Ludemann, in EDNT, holds that 1 P 2:19 is one of two "
post-Pauline usages of the word in the absolute that reflect an independent
recollection of the Hellenistic usage seen in Paul -- _knowledge_  of God,
contra L. Goppelt " 

Regards,
Maurice


Maurice A. O'Sullivan
[ Bray, Ireland ]
mauros at iol.ie

" Blessed he that neither tastes 
bitter wisdom from the Greeks,
nor spits out the simple words  
of the men of Galilee!"

--------  St. Ephraim the Syrian



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