[B-Greek] KAQWS & ORATIO OBLIQUA Acts 15:4

Elizabeth Kline kline_dekooning at earthlink.net
Thu Aug 10 13:06:59 EDT 2006



ACTS 15:14 SUMEWN EXHGHSATO KAQWS PRWTON hO QEOS EPESKEYATO LABEIN EX  
EQNWN LAON TWi ONOMATI AUTOU.  15 KAI TOUTWi SUMFWNOUSIN hOI LOGOI  
TWN PROFHTWN KAQWS GEGRAPTAI:

3JOHN 2 AGAPHTE, PERI PANTWN EUCOMAI SE EUODOUSQAI KAI hUGIAINEIN,  
KAQWS EUODOUTAI SOU hH YUCH.  3 ECARHN GAR LIAN ERCOMENWN ADELFWN KAI  
MARTUROUNTWN SOU THi ALHQEIAi, KAQWS SU EN ALHQEIAi PERIPATEIS.

Aristeae Epist…, Aristeae epistula ad Philocratem

263 1
APEKRIQH DE:
EI THN ISOTHTA THROI, KAI PAR hEKASTON hEAUTON hUPOMIMNHSKOI,
KAQWS ANQRWPOS WN ANQRWPWN hHGEITAI. KAI hO QEOS TOUS
hUPERHFANOUS KAQAIREI, TOUS DE EPIEIKEIS KAI TAPEINOUS hUYOI.

R.H. Charles translation:
263 he said to the first, 'How can a man keep himself from pride?'  
And he replied, 'If he maintains equality and remembers on all  
occasions that he is a man ruling over men. And God brings the proud  
to nought, and exalts the meek and humble.'

KAQWS in Acts 15:4 introduces indirect discourse (Danker, Culy/ 
Parsons)  but glossing it as "how" and then saying that this is a  
rare meaning (Barrett Acts ICC) seems to me to misconstrue the  
evidence. Does it mean "how"?  Danker and Culy/Parsons both  
translated it "how" but do NOT indicated that "how" is the meaning of  
KAQWS. I have no problem with the translation but Barrett identifies  
it as meaning of KAQWS which seems dubious at best.



Elizabeth Kline







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