[B-Greek] uses of sunpolitai outside of NT
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Mon Oct 13 06:46:25 EDT 2003
At 10:40 PM -0700 10/12/03, Mike Singleton wrote:
>SUMPOLITAI is used by Paul in Ephesian 2:19 (evidently an old and rare
>word). Is this word cited anywhere else, even in secular writings?
It's not really so old or rare; BDAG cites SUMPOLITHS as used by Euripides
in the 4th c BC, by Aelian in the 2nd-3rd c. AD, in the apocryphal
Testament of Job, in Josephus, and elsewhere; the cognate verb
SUMPOLITEUOMAI (share citizenship with others) is also cited from classical
Thucydides and Isocrates from Hellenistic Epictetus, Diodorus Siculus, etc.
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Carl W. Conrad
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