Rev 18:20

George Blaisdell maqhth at hotmail.com
Sat Jun 19 09:55:33 EDT 1999





>From: "Carl W. Conrad"

>Moon-Ryul Jung wrote:

> >Linda asked:


> >The question is about the translation of the "because clause":
> >hOTI EKRINEN hO QEOS TO KRIMA hUMWN EX AUTHS.
> >Literally it says:
> >God judged your judgement from her.
> >
> >Some translated it as
> >God judged your judgement against her.
> >It seems to make sense.
> >So, here we have two questions.
> >(1) Can EX mean AGAINST?
> >(2) What does "KRINW TO KRIMA hUMWN" mean?


>(1) No, EK in this instance must mean (oddly) "with reference to", an
>extraordinary extension of "arising from",

>hOTI EKRINEN hO QEOS TO KRIMA hUMWN EX AUTHS  'because God condemned her 
>for
>what she did to you' Re 18:20.
>
>Note that this translation is of the "dynamic equivalence" sort: it is good 
>English but there's no way to see in it what Greek text it is derived from 
>without having gone through the entire >analysis of the two phrases in
>question (KRINEIN TO KRIMA hUMWN and EX AUTHS).

I am wondering if this may be a formulaic expression of a legal decision, in 
virtue of the two genitives following TO KRIMA.  In US courts the judge 
might say "I find FOR the plaintiff AGAINST [EX] the defendant. This would 
have hUMWN EX AUTHS as a unit [of decision, both for and against] modifying 
TO KRIMA.

So here: hOTI EKRINEN hO QEOS TO KRIMA hUMWN EX AUTHS would translate 
"[rejoice] that God decided the judgement [in favor] of you against [away 
from] her."



George Blaisdell
Roslyn, WA


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