RENEW

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Fri Apr 28 10:04:21 EDT 2000


At 8:54 AM -0500 4/28/00, Bill Ross wrote:
>I just noticed this morning the interesting ANA prefix in Eph 1:10:
>
>Ephesians 1:10	EIS OIKONOMIAN TOU PLHRWMATOS TWN KAIRWN
>**ANAKEFALAIWSASQAI** TA PANTA EN TW CRISTW TA EPI TOIS OURANOIS KAI TA EPI
>THS GHS EN AUTW
>
>The word has the basic meaning of "summarizing" by "bringing under one
>head", but since Paul is speaking of redemption and God's ancient purposes,
>is it possible that his usage here implies a recovery of the heading up?

I think the Latinized equivalent of ANAKEFALAAIWSASQAI comes into English
as "recapitulate"--as in the well-known biological dictum, for instance,
"Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny."

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