[B-Greek] Re: Mt 11:19 the works and the wisdom

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Fri Aug 15 07:41:04 EDT 2003


At 8:46 AM +0200 8/15/03, Wieland Willker wrote:
>Thanks for your contributions!
>What about this:
>APO is meant as a separation: "Wisdom is justified away from her
>works/products." This is meant as: The finest products of wisdom are
>Jesus and John. Now the Jews have managed (by their justifications,
>verses 18-19a) to separate wisdom from their products (Jesus and John).
>Is this possible?

Seems to me that this comes close to the way Bill Ross has attempted to
argue recently on another list: that APO can mean the same thing as CWRIS,
"apart from" or "separated from." I simply don't believe that APO can carry
that sense. Acc. to LSJ in terms of spatial location it may mean "away
from" or "far from."--and most of the citations in LSJ under I.2 with this
sense are from early Greek epic; surely it is far easier to understand the
text of Mt 11:19 in terms of APO in LSJ's sense III, "of origin, cause,
etc." and specifically III.6, "of the cause, means, or occasion from, by,
or because of which a thing is done."
-- 

Carl W. Conrad
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