[B-Greek] Follow up to Mitch's AGAPAW and FILEW

Dmitriy Reznik reznik1 at juno.com
Sun Aug 17 17:57:55 EDT 2003


On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 14:58:12 -0300 "Brent Hudson"
<brent at riveroflifembchurch.com> writes:
> Has anyone ever come across TRITOS with the sense "three times"?  
> 

I think that Peter was sad because it was not enough for Jesus to ask
even 2 times. But anyway, FILEW AND AGAPAW are synonymous there, because:
1) Other words already mentioned by Carl are used synonymously,
2) It was synonymous for Peter, who says, Yea, Lord; you know that I FILW
you. He doesn't say, No, L-rd, I just FILW you. So using FILEW he
confirms that he does AGAPA Jesus, because Jesus asked if Peter AGAPA
Him, and Peter answered YES. 
3) AGAPAW is used in various places of the NT and Septuagint in a bad
(even disgusting) meaning, so nobody would understand John if he decided
to play on difference of these words. 
4) AGAPAW is used interchangeably with FILEW, e.g. in one gospel Jesus
FILEI "the disciple whom Jesus loved", in other He FILEI that disciple.
In one place (Luke 20:46) Pharisees FILOUSI places of honor in
synagogues, in the parallel place they AGAPOUSI those places (Luke
11:43). 
5) Jesus didn't really speak in Greek, but in Hebrew or Aramaic, and
those languages don't have such a pair of words. Thus in Peshitta same
word is used in John 21.

Regards,
Dmitriy Reznik

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