[B-Greek] Translation of SABBATON
Harold R. Holmyard III
hholmyard at ont.com
Wed Jun 30 16:35:50 EDT 2004
Dear Neil,
I'm not sure that it strictly means week. Perhaps
you're thinking of a verse like:
Mark 16:9 ¶ When Jesus rose early on the first
day of the week, he appeared first to Mary
Magdalene, out of whom he had driven seven demons.
There the phrase is TNi MIAi TWN SABBATWN, which
seems to be a technical phrase meaning the first
day after the Sabbath, which was the first day of
the week.
HH: The verse in Didache 8:1 that George quoted
was the same idea except that DEUTERA SABBATWN
("the second day from the Sabbath") means Monday.
There is the verse in Luke 18:12:
Luke 18:12 I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.'
HH: Here the phrase is DIS TOU SABBATOU, "twice
of the Sabbath," which means twice a week, twice
before the next Sabbbath. So Sabbath technically
may not mean week. It is used in such a way that
"week" sometimes seems an appropriate term to use
in the translation to indicate the idea in the
author's mind. The lexicon gives "week" as a
meaning of the term sometimes, so I could be
wrong.
Yours,
Harold Holmyard
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