[B-Greek] Phlm 9

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Wed Jan 12 12:50:44 EST 2005


At 11:57 AM -0500 1/12/05, Jim West wrote:
>Listers,
>In his commentary on Philemon, Peter O'Brien suggests that "presbeuths" can
>also mean "envoy" or "ambassador".  As proof he offers a few LXX
>passages.  Does anyone know if "envoy" or "ambassador" is a proper
>rendering of this word outside the LXX (in contemporary Greek literature).

It's a pretty standard usage as is clear from BDAG and LSJ; in Hellenistic
Greek it was more common than the older PRESBUS.
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