Luke 18:11
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Wed Aug 7 19:44:58 EDT 2002
At 11:40 PM -0700 8/6/02, Richard Allan Stauch wrote:
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Chet Creider
>Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 5:12 PM
>To: Biblical Greek
>Subject: [b-greek] Luke 18:11
>
>Some time ago I asked for assistance with determining the meaning of
>the preposition in the following phrase from Luke 18:11:
> hO FARISAIOS STAQEIS TAUTA PROS hEAUTON PROSHUCETO
>[Snip]
>BDAG:
>The 3rd edition has an extensive discussion of PROS and cites the phrase
>in Luke 18:11 under sense 3, subsense g. Sense 3 is the familiar
>"movement
>or orientation toward s.o./s.t." and subsense g is "by, at, near".
>However,
>the actual gloss given for the phrase in Luke is "he uttered a prayer to
>himself". This strikes me as not likely given that the verb is
>PROSHUCETO.
My impression is that this citation of Lk 18:11 is simply misplaced in BDAG
sense 3, subsense g. Under sense 3, subsense a 'of place, person, or thing:
"toward, towards, to," after verbs.', zeta is "of asking, praying" and
PROSEUCOMAI is one of the verbs cited. That's where the citation of Lk
18:11 and the translation "he uttered a prayer to himself" really belongs.
--
Carl W. Conrad
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