[B-Greek] Beginners on B-Greek? (was "Re: Mark 5:7")
Jon Rumble
jon.rumble at gmail.com
Mon Oct 31 02:31:11 EST 2005
Hey Vincent,
> I joined B-Greek motivated by a very strong desire to
> understand one scripture: Acts 13:2
Unfortunately I'm discovering much of Luke's writings are somewhat
more complicated than most of the NT! :) ...however this verse isn't
too hard to translate:
Acts 13:2
LEITOURGOUNTWN DE AUTWN TW KURIW KAI NHSTEUONTWN EIPEN TO PNEUMA TO
AGION AFORISATE DH MOI TON BARNABAN KAI SAULON EIS TO ERGON hO
PROSKEKLHMAI AUTOUS
While they were worshipping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit
said: "Set apart Barnabas and Saul for me, to do the work which I have
called them to."
> My interest in studying the scripture is in getting at
> the truth as to whether the scripture represents a
> personification of the Holy Spirit's speaking or
> whether it's literal.
I'm not entirely sure what you mean by that -I think the NIV
translation is both literal and accurate. Are you asking whether it
was God speaking through someone by the spirit or the spirit speaking
directly? I'm not sure that Luke necessarily means to say anything
about how the spirit spoke (ie did they hear it audibly?) but I think
it would be hard to understand the way the Spirit is used in this
verse (and much of the NT) without taking the Holy Spirit to be
'personal'; but I guess we all need to pray that God would mould our
theology by his Word and not the other way round!
In Him,
Jon Rumble
On 10/31/05, Vincent <vmwusa_2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> A 2 month old baby would probably understand Greek as
> much as I currently do. (Thus, I was hoping to lurk
> a LOT longer! :-))
> I joined B-Greek motivated by a very strong desire to
> understand one scripture: Acts 13:2 "While they were
> worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said,
> "Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to
> which I have called them."" (NIV)
> Though this scripture is important in the
> Trinitarian/Anti-Trinitarian debate, in keeping with
> Joshua 5:13-14, I'm neither. ("Now when Joshua was
> near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in
> front of him with a drawn sword in his hand. Joshua
> went up to him and asked, "Are you for us or for our
> enemies?" 14 "Neither," he replied, "but as commander
> of the army of the LORD I have now come."")
> My interest in studying the scripture is in getting at
> the truth as to whether the scripture represents a
> personification of the Holy Spirit's speaking or
> whether it's literal.
> Though I'm truly happy to know the group's here, I'm
> now retreating to official lurker status for a few
> months. :-)
> Thanks,
> Vincent Wright
> 10.30.2005
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