Gospel of Peter 3.6
Jon R. Venema
Grammata at compuserve.com
Tue Mar 2 14:42:39 EST 1999
Mark wrote:
>Gospel of Peter 3.6: hOI DE LABONTES TON KURION WQOUN AUTON
>TREXONTES KAI ELEGON: SURWMEN TON hUION TOU QEOU ECOUSIAN AUTOU
>ESXHKOTES.
>I am inclined to take it as something like "having seized his
>authority", but is there any precedent for translating ESXHKOTES this
>way? M. R. James translates "now that we have gotten authority over
>him". Does anyone have any suggestions? We chewed over this one
>for some time.
Mark, the following example is interesting because of its
use of EXOUSIAN ESCHKOTES, but the context does not
appear to suggest anything stronger than "obtain" (and
that may be too much).
3 Macc 7:21:
KAI PLEISTHN H EMPROSQEN EN TOIS ECQROIS
*EXOUSIAN ESCHKOTES* META DOXHS KAI FOBOU
TO SUNOLON hUPO MHDENOS DIASESQENTES
TWN hUPARCONTWN
cf 3 Macc 7:16 for another example of the prf ptc.
Jon R. Venema
Western Seminary
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