SKOPOS

Maurice A. O'Sullivan mauros at iol.ie
Sun Oct 17 11:13:42 EDT 1999


At 23:04 16/10/99 -0500, Carl W. Conrad wrote:
>  cannot say when the hilltop was first called SKOPOS, but I doubt
>seriously that Paul had that in mind in Phil 3:14, where the sense is
>pretty clearly the goal directly in view of a focused eye: the 'bull's eye"
>as it were of his aim in life,

Carl:
Raymond Brown ( of blessed memory) when he was asked a questionlthe answer 
to which he could only surmise, used to say " I would hope in the next life 
to be in a position  to ask X what he meant when he used that particular term".

I, too, would appreciate being able to ask Paul whether he was indulging in 
word play using SKOPOS [ a N.T hapax, after all ].
Puns/word--play are so much part of the Hebrew Scriptures, after all.

As any of us who have wandered around Jerusalem know well, Mount Scopus 
catches the eye at each turn as would the Eiffel Tower, say, as a means of 
orientation.
So, along with the literal meaning of " the mark" or "the target " of Wis. 5:21
" will leap to the target "  /  EPI SKOPON ALOUNTAI I would like to think 
that for Paul, and hopefully for us, the goal will leap to our eye as did 
Mt. Scopus.

Regards
Maurice


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