Lk 4:1 EN TWi PNEUMATI (Luke in Codex Bezae issue)
Rion Reece
rionreece at hotmail.com
Fri Oct 4 00:05:27 EDT 2002
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>Sometimes it can have this meaning. In Rev 1.10 we read
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>EGENOMHN EN PNEUMATI -- I was in meditation
I think that although you may build a case for this, it is still a bit of an
assumption. Whatever one concedes to the experience of the moderns, our
early Christian friends seemed to believe that their faith was resting on
the validity of the testimony of first hand witnesses and on their own
experience of the Spirit of God. In this case, the author immediately
proceeds to relate the contents of a revelation. That would seem to
indicate some kind of participation with the Devine, rather than just
introspection.
Does any one know of any clear examples of en pneuma used to mean
meditation? TDNT describes pnuema as "Coming spasmodically without
meditation"(vol VI, 347) and "the impersonal medium which...achieves
sporadic communication between the divine and the human...(359). In the
section on the use of pnuema in Revelation, Schweizer goes so far as to
positively identify the pneuma as the "exalted Lord Himself" (449).
Rion K. Reece
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