[B-Greek] Rev. 1:10
Lira
rosangelalira at terra.com.br
Wed Dec 3 11:33:48 EST 2003
Jason,
Just to clear up the matter.
In his initial post, Tony asked if Rev. 1:10 referred to Sunday which the Early Church Fathers including the Didache came to designate as the "Lord's day".
Gfsomsel replied that the term is used even before the Didache, in Ignatius' Epistle to the Magnesians, referring to Sunday.
Having studied the historical aspect of the expression "Lord's day", I replied that both the Didache and the Espistle to the Magnesians are without value as evidences, since the texts are defective and nobody knows what the original authors meant. The Didache says KATA KURIAKHN DE KURIOU, "according to the Lord's (?) of the Lord", which does not make any sense at all; and the only Greek extant text of the Epistle to the Magnesians says KATA KURIAKHN ZOHN ZWNTES, "living according to the Lord's life"; it is the Latin text which omits the word for "life", and on this basis scholars opted for the reading KATA KURIAKHN ZWNTES. But this is debatable.
Gfsomsel must have failed to notice that the Greek text included the word ZOHN, and said that it couldn't be "living according to the Lord's life". What I said was that I saw no difference, grammatically, between "living according to the Lord's life", and "living according to the Lord's day"; I mean, why was the reading "living according to the Lord's life" impossible? I accidentally ommited the preposition KATA in the phrases; it was a mistake.
Rosangela Lira
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