Mark 10:15

Jonathan Robie jonathan.robie at datadirect-technologies.com
Fri Nov 8 06:03:48 EST 2002


At 05:42 AM 11/8/2002 -0500, Carl W. Conrad wrote:

>I don't quite understand; why would the meaning be other than it is with
>the implicit verb? e.g. HSAN hWS PROBATA (EISIN) MH ECONTA POIMENA; HN DE
>hH EIDEA AUTOU hWS ASTRAPH (ESTIN) ... and isn't the meaning you suggest
>precisely what it is in Carlton's formulation?

Here's the text of Mark 10:15 again: AMHN LEGW hUMIN, hOS AN MH DEXHTAI THN 
BASILEIAN TOU QEOU hWS PAIDION, OU MH EISELQHi EIS AUTHN.

As I interpreted Carlton's formulation, it would mean we need to receive 
the Kingdom "in the same way that a child receives the Kingdom".

I was asking whether this could also mean "like a child" - not to receive 
the Kingdom the same way a child would receive the Kingdom, but to receive 
the Kingdom in a way that is child-like. That would be easier for me to 
interpret, because I don't really know how a child receives the Kingdom, 
but I know something about what children are like. Of course, the reading 
that is easier to interpret is not always correct, or even tenable ;->

Jonathan




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