[B-Greek] GENEA (Phil. 2:15): How Close to "Culture"?

George F Somsel gfsomsel at yahoo.com
Fri Dec 8 19:07:08 EST 2006


41.38 KOSMOS, OU m: AIWON, WNOS m: the system of practices and standards associated with secular society (that is, without reference to any demands or requirements of God)—‘world system, world’s standards, world.’
KOSMOS:  DI' hOU EMOI KOSMOS ETAURWTAI K'AGW KOSMWi ‘because of whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world’ Ga 6.14. It may be particularly difficult to speak of the world being crucified, and therefore in a number of languages one must employ a somewhat fuller restructuring, for example, ‘because of Christ, the way in which people in this world live is as though it were dead as far as I am concerned, and I am dead, so to speak, as far as the way in which people in this world live.’

Louw, J. P., & Nida, E. A. (1996, c1989). Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament : Based on semantic domains (electronic ed. of the 2nd edition.) (1:507). New York: United Bible societies.

 
george
gfsomsel
_________



----- Original Message ----
From: Webb <webb at selftest.net>
To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Friday, December 8, 2006 6:47:22 PM
Subject: [B-Greek] GENEA (Phil. 2:15): How Close to "Culture"?


I was translating Phil. 2:15, where Paul talks about a "twisted and perverse
generation, among whom you shine like stars", and it struck me that I might
paraphrase that as, "a twisted and perverse culture", meaning something like
a "the Zeitgeist of the current generation", i.e. the common worldview and
mentality of the people in a given place, whose behavioral and mental center
of gravity does have a kind of dynamic, generational character. But when I
tried to do a reverse look up on the word "culture" on Liddell and Scott
using Perseus, nothing very relevant-looking came up. Is there a Greek word
that could be translated as "culture", in the broad sense of "our culture"?
If not, does that open the possibility that Paul may have been reaching for
a concept whose most communicative English equivalent is "culture"?



Webb Mealy

---
B-Greek home page: http://www.ibiblio.org/bgreek
B-Greek mailing list
B-Greek at lists.ibiblio.org
http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-greek

__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Tired of spam?  Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around 
http://mail.yahoo.com 


More information about the B-Greek mailing list