[B-Greek] Ephesians 6:18
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at ioa.com
Wed Sep 7 16:23:16 EDT 2005
On Sep 7, 2005, at 4:10 PM, David Bielby wrote:
> PROSEUCOMENOI PERI PANTWN TWN hAGIWN KAI hUPER EMOU
>
> Am I correct in translating PERI here as if it were hUPER?
>
> So it would be Praying for all the saints…
Yes.
> If so, why is this the case? What caused it and how do I discern
> that in
> other texts?
1. You should look at BDAG s.v. PERI 1.f (if you're not using BDAG,
you should be -- it really is useful for resolving the sort of
question that you are here raising.
2. I think that if you think of hUPER as meaning essentially "over"
and PERI as meaning essentially "about," and that both prepositions
are used with a genitive of the person(s) prayed "over" or "about,"
you should find it not unreasonable that usage of the two
prepositions should overlap. What BDAG shows is that they did indeed
overlap.
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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