Hebrews 11:1

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Mon Jul 3 19:24:49 EDT 2000


At 5:16 PM -0400 7/3/00, Theodore H Mann wrote:
>Hi all:
>
>I have a translation that renders hUPOSTASIS, in Hebrews 11:1, as
>"substantiation."  Is this a reasonable choice?

I don't think it's a bad choice. As in one of Robert Frost's last poems:

	But God's own descent
	Into flesh was meant
		as a demonstration
			that the supreme merit
			lay in risking spirit
		in substantiation.

That's from memory and I'm not altogether sure of the phrasing of the first
line, but I think the sense of "substantiation" here is akin to what you're
suggesting, and I frankly like "substantiation" for hUPOSTASIS better than
KJV's "substance."


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Carl W. Conrad
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