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Barry Hofstetter
nebarry at verizon.net
Sun Dec 26 21:53:40 EST 2004
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From: "Jim West" <jwest at highland.net>
To: "Barry Hofstetter" <nebarry at verizon.net>
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Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2004 8:32 PM
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] (no subject)
> To date, no one who has responded has offered a definition of "teleion"- so
> I'll give it a whack. You are right in seeing that most translations render
> it "perfect". However, this is not necessarily the best translation. The word
> means something like "mature" or even in our parlance "grown up" and only in a
> derivative way might it imply what we mean by the word "perfect" - but only in
> the sense of "complete". The verbal form in fact means "complete, bring to
> an end, finish, bring in full measure", etc.
>
> Nonetheless, when king jimbob commissioned his reworking of wycliffe,
> "perfect" meant "complete" and not "without error or fault".
Do you think TO TELEION will have either error or fault in 1 Cor 13:10? BTW,
the KJV was not a reworking of Wycliffe, but of Tyndale.
That is precisely the sense, however: it refers to that which is complete, to
which nothing need be added. If maturity, no need for further growth: if moral
state, nothing that needs to be improved, if my wife's cooking, perfection
indeed...
N.E. Barry Hofstetter
Adjunct Faculty, The Center for Urban Theological Studies
Philadelphia, PA
http://www.cuts.edu
Adjunct Faculty, Reformed Theological Seminary
Washington, D.C.
http://www.rts.edu/campuses/washington_dc/index.cfm
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http://mysite.verizon.net/nebarry/
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