Hebrews 3:11

Steven Lo Vullo doulos at merr.com
Fri Nov 30 22:32:09 EST 2001



On Friday, November 30, 2001, at 09:02  PM, DEXROLL at aol.com wrote:

> 3.11        hWS WMOSA EN TH  ORGH   MOU:
>         EI  EISELEUSONTAI   EIS THN   KATAVPAUSIVN MOU.
>     In doing some work on Hebrews I  came across this use of the 
> conditional
> as a sort of negative oath.   Now, I can understand the basic meaning 
> here as
> " if they shall enter my rest (or will they enter my rest ?) . No -- 
> they
> will not  ! ( understood apodosis)."

I think, in keeping with the Hebrew background, the understood apodosis 
is some sort of self-maledictory oath: "If they enter into my rest, may 
[something really bad] happen to me."
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Steven Lo Vullo
Madison, WI




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