Christian
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Mon May 24 15:45:18 EDT 1999
At 2:04 PM -0500 5/24/99, dd-1 at juno.com wrote:
>Carl, Denny Diehl here
>
>>CRHMATISAI is NOT middle/passive; it's an aorist ACTIVE infinitive.
>
>How many times may a person embarrass himself on this list
>before he is thrown off?<g> I guess it has been too many years.
>
>Would "they" be the subject then: They met...and taught...calling
>the disciples Christians first in Antioch?
Yes; it should be noted that CRHMATIZW is a special word; something like
German 'heissen'; it has middle/passive force (which is probably why you
thought it was middle/passive); the sense is "have the name/title."
LSJ: III. in later writers, from Plb. downwards, the Act. chrêmatizô takes
some special senses:
1. to take and bear a title or name, to be called or styled so and so,
chrêmatizein basileus Plb.5.57.2, au=Plb. 30.2.4, cf. Aristeas au=Plb.
30.2.298=lr; Ptolemaios . . neos Dionusos ch. D.S.1.44; echrêmatize
Chalkêdonios, Krêtikos, Strab. 13.1.55, App.Sic.6; nea Isis echrêmatize
Plu.Ant.54; mê patrothen, all' apo mêterôn ch. to call themselves not after
their fathers, but after their mothers, IDEM=Plu.Ant. =lr; ch. apo tou
dêmou Harp. s.v. dêmoteuomenos; ch. tous mathêtas Christianous Act.Ap.
11.26; timês kai pisteôs ch. axioi to be deemed . . , App.BC2.111.
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University
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