Filadelphia
Mary L B Pendergraft
pender at f1n7.sp2net.wfu.edu
Wed Mar 3 12:55:00 EST 1999
I believe the cities named Philadelphia, like so many Hellenistic
foundations, had dynastic names--from the QEOI PHILADELPHOI, Ptolemy II,
king of Egypt, and his sister/wife Arsinoe II.
Mary
At 05:42 PM 3/3/99 +0000, Maurice A. O'Sullivan wrote:
>At 22:28 02/03/99 -0600, you wrote:
>>In 2 Peter 1:7 I have a question about this term filadelphia >or
>philadelphia. I don't see it in my LXX database, on in the NT.
>
>David:
>The word occurs 4 times in 4 Maccabees, and 6 times in the NT
>Romans 12:10
> 1Thess 4:9
> Heb 13:1
>1Peter 1:22
> 2Peter 1:7
> 2Peter 1:7
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>and the name of the city --- which is spelt PHILADELPHEIA -- occurs at Rv.
>3:7, as one of the Seven Cities.
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>
>Does it
>>originate from the name of the city in the Decapolis? Where did that name
>>come from? Could someone point me to the original source of this term, if
>>known? I'm interested in connotations from Classical Greek that may cast
>>a proper background for Peter's useage.
>>
>I feel that if I were to present you with two Greek words separately:
>FILOS and ADELPHOS
>you would have no trouble in checking them in your dictionary, and at least
>taking a shot at what they meant.
>
>Here is the Louw-Nida definition:
>
>25.34 filadelfi/a, : affection for one's fellow believer in Christ -
>`love for one's fellow believer, affection for a fellow believer.
>"there is no need to write you about affection for your fellow believers' 1
>Th 4.9; `keep on loving one another as fellow believers' He 13.1.
>
>I recommend you look at the article "Brotherhood" in the Anchor Bible
>Dictionary
>
>Regards,
>Maurice
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>Maurice A. O'Sullivan [ Bray, Ireland ]
>mauros at iol.ie
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Mary Pendergraft
Associate Professor of Classical Languages
Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem NC 27109-7343
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