[B-Greek] SUNEIDHSIS

Noel Fitzpatrick njfitzpatrick at eircom.net
Mon Mar 17 14:47:50 EST 2003


Re SUNEIDHSIS Charles Savelle asks "1. Are you aware of any 
Greek synonyms to this term?"

Perseus gives  as words with similar meaning to SUNEIDHSIS 
(self-consciousness, conscience) in LSJ, which has already 
been consulted by Charles,  "PARAKOLOUQHSIS, SUNOIDA, 
SUNANAMIXIS, SUGGRAMMATEUW, DUSSUNEIDHTOS".

2. Do you think that the translation "conscience" best conveys 
the sense
of 
the term? Why or why not?

It depends on the context.  BDAG (p 967-8) gives three principal 
meanings: (1) awareness of information about someth., 
consciousness, (2) the inward faculty of distinguishing right and 
wrong, moral consciousness, conscience and (3) attentiveness 
to obligation, conscientiousness. 

Happy St Patrick's day to all!.

Noel J Fitzpatrick.

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