[B-Greek] LOGIKOS revisited...
Arie Dirkzwager
dirkzwager at pandora.be
Sat Jan 24 13:59:02 EST 2004
Returning from a holiday on Lanzarote I found nearly 300 messages on
B-Greek. I have some dessert for you after your copious meal about LOGIKOS.
Concerning Romans 12: 1 I find an interesting passage in the Testamentum
Levi (3. 6), where we find about the worship of the angels in heaven
PROSFEROUSI DE KURIWi OSMHN EUWDIAS LOGIKHN, KAI ANAIMAKTON PROSFORAN.
Here LOGIKHN and ANAIMAKTON are staying clearly in a parallellism, as is
shown by the repetion of the root in PROSFEROUSI and PROSFORAN.
If the Testamentum Levi is a purely Jewish text, we see that in Jewish
thought the idea of a "logical" sacrifice as opposite to a sacrifice with
blood was known.
If the text has been influenced by Christian thought, we see that the same
idea was circulating in the early church.
The text supports the idea that with the LOGIKH LATREIA in the letters to
the Romans the LATREIA *of the mind* was meant. With QUSIAN ZWSAN Paul ounce
again makes clear that he is writing in opposition to the sacrifices of dead
animals the Old Testament.
Concerning 1 Peter 2: 2 I think that we have to look over de boundaries of
the chapters. In 1: 23, before quoting the Old Testament, Peter ended with
ANAGENNHMENOI OUK EK SPORAS FQARTHS ALLA AFQARTOU DIA LOGOU ZWNTOS QEOU KAI
MENONTOS.
He takes up his reasoning (OUN, 2:1) and writes ARTIGENNHTA BREFH TO LOGIKON
ADOLON GALA EPIPOQHSATE. The correspondence between ANAGENNHMENOI and
ARTIGENNHTA is clear. So TO LOGIKON GALA can be explained as the milk *of
the Word* (of God).
Arie
Dr. A. Dirkzwager
Hoeselt, Belgium
e-mail dirkzwager at pandora.be
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