[B-Greek] Chalcedon Greek query

Clwinbery at aol.com Clwinbery at aol.com
Wed Apr 30 21:30:12 EDT 2003


In a message dated 4/30/03 1:57:58 PM, bgreek at ntresources.com writes:

>In the Greek text of the Creed of Chalcedon, Shedd gives the following
>word
>as the next to the last word of the creed: KARADEDWKE (*Creeds of
>Christendom,* 2:63). I've search BDAG, L&S, and Lampe to no avail for such
>a
>form. It's typically translated as "handed down." Obviously a perfect form
>of a DIDWMI compound (or so I assume). Is this, perhaps, some variant
>orthography for KATADEDWKE(N)? Or a misprint in Shedd? Or something else?
>Or
>am I overlooking something obvious?
>
This must surely be a typo for PARADEDWKE which means to give over, to pass 
along (such as tradition).

Carlton Winbery
Louisiana College


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