[B-Greek] LOGIKOS - again...

Mike Sangrey msangrey at BlueFeltHat.org
Sat Jan 10 13:02:47 EST 2004


On Sat, 2004-01-10 at 10:27, waldo slusher wrote:
> On this...
> --- "A. Philip Brown II" <pbrown at GBS.EDU> wrote:
> > FWIW,
> > The following statement from BDAG supports Troels' suggestion
> > 
> > it is to be borne in mind that LOGIKOS means spiritual not only in the sense
> > of PNEUMATIKOS, but also in contrast to 'literal', w. the mng.
> > 'metaphorical' (cp. Pel-Leg. p. 20: the bishop is the shepherd TWN LOGIKWN
> > PROBATWN TOU CRISTOU; Eus., HE 1, 1, 4 EK LOGIKWN LEIMWNWN; s. DMcCartney,
> > ZNW 82, '91, 128-32, w. emphasis on Hellenic connection of reason and verbal
> > communication)
> 
> The question this raises is whether or not Romans 12
> or 1 Peter fit this sense. And having brought this to
> our attention, I would now say that 1 Peter is a
> potential candidate for this meaning, while Romans 12
> is not, since I think the service Paul has in mind
> here is one all too real. <snip>

Do you mean 'real' literally <chuckle>.  That is, do you mean that we
are to literally sacrifice our bodies?  Well, obviously not and forgive
me for this attempt at humor.  I'm just trying to bring out the fact
that no matter how LOGIKOS is translated, or even understood, there's a
metaphor going on here.

In this regard, I'll recommend the appendix in Moses Silva's book,
"Biblical words and their meaning".  In this appendix Karen H. Jobes
analyzes a few words in the 'worship' semantic domain including
LATREIA.  I found it helped me better understand what's going on here in
Rom. 12:1ff.  FWIW: she understands LOGIKOS as 'reasonable' or
'appropriate', though the analysis was specific to the worship words and
not to LOGIKOS.  She paraphrases as:  "your appropriate priestly duty as
a Christian."

-- 
Mike Sangrey
msangrey at BlueFeltHat.org
Landisburg, Pa.
                        "The first one last wins."
            "A net of highly cohesive details reveals the truth."




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