Lk 4:1 EN TWi PNEUMATI (Luke in Codex Bezae issue)
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Wed Oct 2 19:50:55 EDT 2002
For George Somsel <From: Polycarp66 at aol.com>:
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 19:36:31 EDT
In a message dated 10/2/2002 8:38:56 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu writes:
>- KAI HGETO EN TWi PNEUMATI EN THi ERHMWi. [D05 B , L, W , Sinaiticus,
>579, NA27 ]
>- KAI HGETO EN TWi PNEUMATI EIS THN ERHMON. [A K M U etc]
>- KAI HGETO UPO TOU PNEUMATOS EIS THN ERHMON. [N, 700]
>
>Doesn't the phrase EN TWi PNEUMATI mean "in his spirit" or "mentally"
>
Sometimes it can have this meaning. In Rev 1.10 we read
EGENOMHN EN PNEUMATI -- I was in meditation
Rev 4.1 EUQEWS EGENOMHN EN PNEUMATI -- Immediately I was in meditation
These indicate being in a state of internal contemplation, not of relation
to the external world.
and in Acts 19.21 it states
EQETO hO PAULOS EN TWi PNEUMATI -- Paul determined in his mind
Lk 10.21 might also be referring to an internal matter
EN AUTHi THi hWRA HGALLIASATO EN TWi PNEUMATI TWi hAGIWi
In that hour he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit
but in Mk 12.36 we have
DAUID EIPEN EN TWi PNEUMATI TWi hAGIWi --
David spoke through the Holy Spirit [surely not in his mind]
In Rev 17.3, however, we have
KAI APHNEGKEN ME EIS ERHMON EN PNEUMATI
And he carried me away in the spirit into the desert
This bears a striking resemblance to Lk 4.1. The difference is that in Lk
4.1 it states
IHSOUS DE PLHRHS PNEUMATOS hAGIOU
My inclination is to understand it as referring to an internal reaction
when it deals with verbs such as thinking but to take it as referring to
the influence of the Holy Spirit when the Holy Spirit is specifically
mentioned or when external actions actions are involved except in the case
of the Apocalypse where the genre of the work seems to indicate that it is
not a physical action.
gfsomsel
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