Matthew 24:22
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Fri Oct 11 21:14:43 EDT 2002
At 1:40 PM -0700 10/11/02, waldo slusher wrote:
>KAI EI MH EKOLOBWQHSAN hAI hHMERAI EKEINAI.....
>
>Is there anything in this context that would require
>understanding EKOLOBWQHSAN to mean that each 24 hour
>day has been shortened/lopped off to less than 24
>hours per day? Could it be that the days AS A WHOLE,
>rather than being shortened, have been 'fixed' to last
>a certain period of time? Which is to say that God has
>predetermined that these days will not go on
>indefinitely (year after year), but have been lopped
>off to cease after the FULL time has run its course.
Curious! I'd never even thought of the possibility that the reference was
to individual days--such that a 24-hour day would pass in 18 or fewer
hours, and to me that seems a strained way to understand the saying
(although I admit I don't see why it would be impossible to get that sense
from the Greek); rather I've understood hAI hHMERAI EKEINAI as a sort of
"generic" phrase referring to the QLIYIS immediately preceding the climax
of the PAROUSIA.
--
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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