[B-Greek] Origen hypostasis

Harold R. Holmyard III hholmyard at ont.com
Sat Oct 8 22:52:28 EDT 2005


Dear Octavio,

>Hebrews 11:1 "..faith is the substance(hupostasis) of things hoped for..."
>(KJV)
>   Really in this translation the word substance is dificult to understand ,
>perhaps assurance is better.
>  About Origen , I don´t have the Greek text of this book , However , Origen
>said in Commentary on John Book II,6 :
>  "... We consider, therefore, that there are three hypostases, the Father
>and the Son and the Holy Spirit; and at the same thee we believe nothing to
>be uncreated but the Father. " (Roberts-Donaldson)
>  It is clear that the Paul´s hupostasis is not the same with Origen. However
>i think in this passage ,
>  the word hupostasis correspond to substances ,i.e "..three substances , the
>Father and the Son , and the Holy Spirit ...".
>Do you agree with me??.
>  Other questions is about the translators Roberts-Donaldson , they didn´t
>translate "hupostasis" , perhaps they couldn´t translate the real meaning in
>english.

HH: If this were an easy call, it would have been 
settled a long time ago, but even Bible 
translations differ. It seems to me a helpful 
line of thought might be to ask which translation 
alternative fits better with the parallel term 
ELEGCOS.

				Yours,
				Harold Holmyard




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