[B-Greek] LOGIKOS revisited...

Troels Hansen tkmh at get2net.dk
Thu Jan 15 04:57:34 EST 2004


Aarhus, Denmark, January 11. 2004



Dear fellow b_greekers!


I'm not quite up to Waldo Slusher's challenge of January 10: "The first thing you should do is to research this word and find its semantic boundaries. If, during this research, you have found several usages for "figuratively," then by all means please provide such documentation, since you appear to be introducing a new semantic meaning to LOGIKOS." I honestly don't know what 'semantic boundaries' are but I do know the explanation given in Moulton and Milligan: "The Vocabulary of the New Testament" though my comparatively poor Greek has not allowed me to understand all their examples. Still, my idea has come from the Pelagia Legend of which Philip Brown quotes the decisive part. What is at stake here is a similarity - if not identity - between two relations, here that between the shepherd and his/her sheep and Christ and the congregation. Perhaps you can say that the relation between Christ and the congregation is figuratively that between the shepherd and his/her sheep. Anyway, I suggest that this similarity is the reason why the congregation is called LOGIKOT PROBATOI. Also, one of my theological heroes, prof. Peter Widmann of my local University, who seems to have an enormous memory that he can access without effort, thereby deserves the title 'a LOGIKOS Carl W. Conrad' since they both astonish me the same way.
Let me return the challenge: Should any one of you know of any instance of 'LOGIKOS' that cannot be dealt with in this way, please let me know!


Troels Hansen
tkmh at get2net.dk



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