[B-Greek] misthapodotes/Hebrews 11:6

Polycarp66 at aol.com Polycarp66 at aol.com
Wed Mar 5 08:16:41 EST 2003


In a message dated 3/5/2003 6:05:15 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu writes:

> At 11:47 PM -0500 3/4/03, David&Karen Beaulieu wrote:
> >>Dear B-Greek,
> >>  I am not very skillful at retrieving items which have previously been
> >>discussed on b-greek.  Does anyone know if a thread is present regarding
> >>this word and its use in this particular context?  I've read that it is a
> >>rare, double compound.  Would that mean "rare" in regard to the use of
> >these
> >>types of words in Scripture?  Can anyone comment as to the significance 
> of
> >>its use? Is "reward/er" a good translation of the two words which 
> comprise
> >>this word?  Is the concept of reward a good translation for the compound
> >>word as well? I notice that the Message translation offers a somewhat
> >different sense,
> >  "that God cares enough to respond to those who seek him."
> 
> The only thread on this that I have found in my archives going back to 1992
> results from doing a search for MISQAPODOTHS; it is July 2-3, 1997, but
> there's nothing about that word as such (other than misidentification of it
> as a substantive participle!). I think that the word itself may be rare,
> but I don't think the compounding is so odd, inasmuch as it's compounded of
> a noun and the agent-noun of a compounded verb, APODIDWMI, "repay, pay
> back." The word must have the sense "one who pays back (for service
> performed)." And that sense certainly works well enough here. BDAG
> indicates that this and a related noun MISQAPODOSIA are found only in
> Hebrews and ecclesiastical literature; Glare's supplement to LSJ notes a
> 4th-century inscription using MISQAPODOTHS. I would judge then, from what's
> said in these resources, that "rare" means that searches of extant
> literature, papyri and inscriptions haven't turned up other instances of
> the word.
> 
The online TLG  gives a quotation from Basil of Caesarea in Adversus Eunomium 
from the 4th cent.

QEOU THN OUSIAN PARA TOU IEZEKIHL DIDAXQEIS, PALIN PUR EINAI TON QEON PARA 
TOU MWSEWS AKOUSETAI KAI PARA TOU SOFOU DANIHL PROS ALLAS hUPOLHYEIS 
APENEXQHSETA; KAI hOUTWS OU YEUDEIS MONON, ALLA KAI MAXOMENAS ALLHLAIS EK TWN 
GRAMMATWN hEREQHSETAI TAS FANTASIAS ANALEGOMENOS.  AFEMENOIS OYN THS KATA THN 
OUSIAN POLUPRAGMOSUNHS hWS ANEFIKTOU, THi hAPLHi PARAINESEI TOU APOLTOLOU 
PEISTEON, LEGONTOS: PISTEUSAI GAR DEI PRWTON, hOTI ESTI QEOS, KAI TOIS 
EKZHTOUSIN AUTON MISQAPODOTHS GINETAI.  OU GAR hH TOU TI ESTIN ECEREUNHSIS, 
ALL' hH TOU hOTI ESTIN hOMOLOGIA THN SVTHRIAN hHMIN PARASKEUAZEI.  EPEI OUN 
APERINOHTOS ANQRVPOU FUSEI KAI ARRHTOS PANTELWS hH OUSIA TOU QEOU 
APODEDEIKTAI, LEIPOMENON ESTI PERI THS AGENNHSIA AUTHS TI TE ESTI, KAI PWS 
EPIQEWREITAI TWi QEWi TWN hOLVN DIECELQEIN.

http://www.tlg.uci.edu/

gfsomsel



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