[B-Greek] Follow up to Mitch's AGAPAW and FILEW
waldo slusher
waldoslusher at yahoo.com
Sat Aug 16 18:19:33 EDT 2003
Mark wrote...
> >-------
> >Antonius, in the funeral discourse addressed the
> Roman people over the body
> >of Caesar in this way:
> >
> >EFILHSATE AUTON hWS PATERA, KAI HGAPHSATE hWS
> EUERGETHN
> >
> >- Trench, Synonyms of the NT, pg. 42, citing Dion
> Cassius, xliv, 48).
> >-------
Carl wrote...
> (2) I think such a distinction between the two
> verbs, as has been amply
> demonstrated in prior list-correspondence, is
> dubious. Where the
> distinction has been underscored in the GNT more
> than anywhere else by some
> interpreters is in John 21, and although there are
> indeed some who still
> assert that some important distinction is in play
> there, a growing
> consensus seems to be holding that it just isn't
> there, that it's a matter
> of word-play like the alternation of BOSKW and
> POIMAINW or of ARNIA and
> PROBATA. The same may well be the case in Antonius'
> EPITAFIOS over Caesar:
> that EFILHSATE and HGAPHSATE are fundamentally
> synonymous in a rhetorical
> parallelism very much like what we commonly find in
> Hebrew poetry.
I think this passage by Cassius, along with the
Father's love (FILEW) for the Son, as well as other
usages of these two verbs, should be given more
consideration to the standard "growing consensus" (??)
of their being no/little distinction. I doubt the
interchange of these two verbs in John 21 had the same
impact on first century readers as it seems to be
having on modern scholars. I vote we continue to
separate them rather than merge them.
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Waldo Slusher
Calgary, AB
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