ANWQEN in John 3:3 ff
Paul S Dixon
dixonps at juno.com
Thu Dec 26 12:03:34 EST 2002
On Thu, 26 Dec 2002 10:48:49 -0600 "Carl W. Conrad"
<cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu> writes:
> At 11:25 AM -0500 12/26/02, <bertdehaan at gosympatico.ca> wrote:
> >Hi everyone.
> >I was reading in the Gospel according to John and came to the
> passage
> >where Jesus said to Nicodemus:...unless one is born again... I was
> >surprised that the word translated as again was not PALIN but
> ANWQEN. When
> >I looked up ANWQEN I found that it is a cognate of ANA and its
> first
> >translation was suggested to be; from above.
> >Would Nicodemus have had a clue that Jesus was speaking about
> something
> >other than a physical birth by Jesus' choice of ANWQEN over PALIN?
>
> This has been discussed many times on the list; you might search
> the
> archives using the word ANWQEN as your trigger. One significant
> little
> thread on it was in June of 1998. One might prefer to understand
> ANWQEN
> either exclusively as "again" or exclusively as "from above," but
> there are
> many who think that this is one point at which the evangelist
> deliberately
> chose a word that could bear more than one sense.
Yes, a good example of a double-entendre. Compare also KEFALHS in 1 Cor
11:5, probably referring to both her own physical head (shaming herself)
and to her figurative head, shaming also her husband.
But, I did notice Gal 4:9 and the juxtaposition of PALIN ANWQEN.
Thoughts?
Paul Dixon, Pastor
First Presbyterian Church (PCA)
Camden, AL
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