Mark 10:15

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Fri Nov 8 07:10:26 EST 2002


At 6:03 AM -0500 11/8/02, Jonathan Robie wrote:
>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 ;->

I would still assume that the meaning is the same; after all, what YOU
consider "child-like" may not be the same as what I consider "child-like."
But it does seem hWS PAIDION (DECETAI THN BASILEIAN) has got to be
equivalent semantically to hOMOIWS PAIDIWi (DECOMENWi THN BASILEIAN)--i.e.,
not like a child after a toy has been taken from him/her or after he/she
has skinned a knee--but rather like a child who receives a present far
beyond what he/she had ever imagined.
-- 

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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