Antiquitates 15: 260

jwest at highland.net jwest at highland.net
Fri Nov 8 08:13:18 EST 2002


> >taken with the preposition apo - i would render exousia here with
"inabilit> y".
> >apo = in + exousia = ability (power, might, etc).
> 
> I don't understand how APO suddenly becomes negative here as if it were
> CWRIS or KATA with genitive; I would think rather that it must mean
> "deriving from."

apo does indeed mean from.  couple with exousia it takes on the literal meaning 
of "from power".  this rather cumbersome phrase in english must then be 
rendered more felicitously by something like "inability".  apo serves here much 
like an alpha privative.

best

jim

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Quartz Hill School of Theology

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