[B-Greek] Living water etc.

Translation Officer - Bible Society of South Africa translate at biblesociety.co.za
Wed Feb 5 04:47:32 EST 2003


Dear Steven

Thanks for your reply!

You wrote:
<<According to BDAG, hORIZWN here means "to order." So I would translate,
"And every prophet who orders a meal in the Spirit shall not eat of
it." What this actually means, I have no idea! I wonder if the future
is predictive or prohibitive. It seems to be prohibitive. Maybe we
could translate, "every prophet who orders a meal in the Spirit must
not eat from it.">>

I got the meaning "to designate" from Liddell&Scott (cf. also the UBS
Concise Greek-English Dictionary), and haven't been able to figure out what
that means.  Kraft has got "And every prophet who, in the spirit, orders a
table to be spread shall not eat therefrom".  I suppose the future could be
prohibitive, but I suspect (given the con-/co-text) that it is used in a
plain indicative sense, since this passage describes ways of differentiating
between true prophets/apostles and false prophets.  It gives a number of
things a true prophet does/will do and does/will not do, e.g. <<OU MENEI DE
EI MH hHMERAN MIAN>>, <<PAS DE PROFHTHS DIDASKWN THN ALHQEIAN EI hA DIDASKEI
OU POIEI, YSEUDOPROFHTHS ESTIN>>, and after the phrase OU FAGETAI AP' AUTHS
it says EI DE MHGE, YEUDOPROFHTHS ESTIN.  I would rather think it means "No
prophet who orders a table in the spirit (whatever that means!?) will eat
(or even "eats") of it; if he does, he is a false prophet".  I was just
wondering what on earth hORIZEIN TRAPEZAN means?

Regards
Manie van den Heever
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