[B-Greek] DIGNWMWN in Didache 2:4

Maurice A. O'Sullivan mauros at iol.ie
Tue Feb 24 06:38:45 EST 2004


At 08:08 24/02/2004, james wrote:

>So, how about 'poker faced'? My own language uses "having two faces" ;-)
>Would I be faithful to the text if I translate OUK ESHi DIGNWMWN OUDE
>DIGLOWSSOS as (literal translation from my own language) "Do not become one
>who has two faces or one who has a forked tongue"?

James:
Didache 2:4 DIGNWMWN is cited in Lampe, G.W.H., ed. A Patristic Greek 
Lexicon. Oxford: O.U.P, 1961 and glossed as:
" of two opinions " = Barn. 19:7 ( and also cited is Hipp. _haer_ 10:15




Maurice A. O'Sullivan
[Bray, Ireland]

" To bury oneself in a Greek lexicon is to rise with Christ "
--- Sir Edwyn C. Hoskyns, Bart. 


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