[B-Greek] Heb. 4.4 - Are the length of God's rest and that oftheseventh day equal?

Arie Dirkzwager dirkzwager at pandora.be
Sun Jun 20 07:46:02 EDT 2004


CORRECTION

In the sentence with *If* the word "nothing" should be "anything".

My apologies.

Arie


Dr. A. Dirkzwager
e-mail dirkzwager at pandora.be

----- Oorspronkelijk bericht -----
Van: "Arie Dirkzwager" <dirkzwager at pandora.be>
Aan: "Fred Day" <fred.a.day at cox.net>; <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Verzonden: zondag 20 juni 2004 9:34
Onderwerp: Re: [B-Greek] Heb. 4.4 - Are the length of God's rest and that
oftheseventh day equal?


> Fred,
>
> I think we have to be very careful here.
> If we compare Nm 14: 21-23 with the verse from Ps 95 we find in Hb 3: 11,
we
> see that THN KATAPAUSIN MOU there means the land where the Jews would find
> rest after the labours in the desert. MOU would mean the rest given *by
> God*.
> Unless Psalm 95 adds the notion to it that those Jews would not go in into
> the eternal rest.
> Then we find KATAPAUSIN as the rest of God after the six days of creation.
> And then we have KATAPAUSIN as the rest the (Christian) believer will get
> (or is getting, Hb 4: 3 EISERCOMEQA).
> So THN KATAPAUSIN MOU does not mean the same conception throughout the
> chapters of Hb.
>
> *If* we conclude that there is nothing in the Greek by which we can tell
if
> he considered the length of God's rest and that of the seventh day to be
> equal, there are so many incertainties between the various kinds of
> KATAPAUSIS and the way the writer combines them that we cannot be certain
> that he really considered those lengths to be equal.
>
> Arie
>
>
>
> Dr.A. Dirkzwager
> Hoeselt, Belgium
> e-mail dirkzwager at pandora.be
>




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