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





>
>Sometimes it can have this meaning.  In Rev 1.10 we read
>
>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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