I need a good English translate for greek word

jwest at highland.net jwest at highland.net
Sat Sep 2 09:01:05 EDT 2000


> This word requires as careful an examination as we give to semantics and
> doctrine, and the traditional interpretation should not be accepted
> merely because it is convenient.  Happy, as Jim West suggested is

i merely suggested it as a member of the range of possibility.  if the original 
question had referenced a specific passage i could have been more precise.  but 
as it merely asked for a general translation sans context....


> unsuitable for the reason that happiness is a response to some stimuli,
> whether internal or external, and is thereby dependent on the situation
> one finds himself in, or the attitude one has chosen to carry.  

this is not necessarily so.

Joy, on
> the other hand, is a lifestyle which interprets all occurences as
> positive, and which in fact determines much of what takes place in the
> life of the joyous person.  

this is a tad overstretched isnt it?  and seems to me to be much more a 
philosophical than a linguistic argument.

I cast my voter for MAKARIOS being
> translated "joyous", and instead of supplying the present indicative
> "they are" to its occurences in Matthew chapter 5, I append "should be".
> 

i dont even recall the original post mentioning matthew 5.  perhaps i missed 
it.  but i dont recall seeing it at all.

>                                                            Two more
> cents from the diminished capacity of,
> 
>                                                                         
>             Joseph Garnier


i bet yur capacity isnt as diminished as mine!
;-)

jim






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