[B-Greek] What was said in Luke?

Ben Crick ben.crick at argonet.co.uk
Thu Apr 29 17:50:01 EDT 2004


On Thu 29 Apr 2004 (12:33:23), dannyrdz7 at yahoo.com wrote:
> My Friends, What was actually said in Luke 22:20, when he speaks of the
> New Covenant? I personally think that Jesus took the CUP and said that
> it REPRESENTS the New Covenant, because it reads like that. Another
> Professor said that the basing ourselfs in the Greek Syntax it cannot
> be so, because when it says "Poured out" it meant the CUP, and we know
> that the cup is not going to be "poured out" so automaticlly is talking
> Metaphore. Can any professor explain me that please? thanks a lot

 This is an example of the Figure of Speech "Synechdoche" or "pars pro
 toto" or "the container for the contents". We say that someone is "fond
 of the Bottle" when what we really mean is that he is fond of the liquid
 contained in the bottle. Helen of Troy was "the face that launched a
 thousand keels (mille carinas)". For keels read ships.

 "This Cup" means "this Wine".

 ERRWSQE

 Ben
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