[B-Greek] 1 Peter 2.19
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Fri Apr 1 12:31:43 EST 2005
At 5:57 PM +0300 4/1/05, Iver Larsen wrote:
>>
>> At 11:21 PM -0500 3/31/05, Gordon Goltz wrote:
>> > I am working on a pericope in preparation for a sermon--1
>> Peter 2.18-25.
>> >In verse 19, Peter writes "EI DIA SUNEIDHSIN QEOU". Could this
>> be an idiom used as an adverb?
>>
>> I note that NET conveys this as
>>
>> "19 For this finds God's favor, if because of conscience toward
>> God someone endures hardships in suffering unjustly."
>
>This makes little sense, but the NET translation often does not communicate
>clearly like most other modified literal versions. It would have been
>clearer to use "awareness of God" as mentioned below in the note.
Iver, I quite agree that the NET version is poor English; like most
versions it has its ups and downs; I cited it simply because I thought it
ought to go along with the notes that I was citing. What I like best about
the NET is precisely that it usually offers explanations regarding the
understanding of the original text governing its version; one can agree or
disagree with the interpretation offered, but few versions offer any
justification at all for their rendering of a text, while NET does offer
something that can be argued with or agreed with.
>> and has notes on the phrase that are conceivably helpful, although they
>> clearly involve some guesswork:
>>
>> A "translator's note" on SUNEIDHSIN QEOU says this means "an awareness of
>> God and allegiance to him"--which one may or may not find clearly implicit
>> in the phrase itself (my own opinion is that we tend to interpret
>> adnominal
>> genitives --those having no clear contextual clarification--with a degree
>> of subjectivity depending upon our own experience and predispositions.
>>
>> Then a note on the phrase itself acknowledges that the phrase is
>> difficult:
>>
>> "The expression "consciousness/conscience of God" (SUNEIDHSIN QEOU) is
>> unusual, occurring only here in the NT.....
>
>Heb 10:2 talks about SUNEIDHSIN hAMARTIWN (awareness of sins), and in this
>kind of genitive, SUNEIDHSIN is probably best understood as
>"consciousness/awareness" rather than "conscience". It is possible for
>slaves to endure unjust treatment as long as they are aware that they are
>servants of God and represent God.
>
>Thanks for the question and the NET note. They helped me to understand the
>text better.
>
>Iver Larsen
>
>
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