[B-Greek] MISQOS Re: (no subject)
frjsilver at optonline.net
frjsilver at optonline.net
Fri Dec 15 10:47:56 EST 2006
It's probably a little too interpretative and editorial to translate MISQOS with loaded words such as 'reward' or 'punishment', although that certainly might be the sense of its context.
Far better, I think, to render this as 'recompense' or 'compensation' or with some other such neutral term conveying the concept of condign, equivalent quantities, maybe even with a qualifier such as 'just' or fair'.
In MG, it means 'salary' or even 'payroll' in the sense that people are paid as much -- or as little -- as they earn. A dictionary note re: a related form observes that the concept is hOLIKE hYPALLHWN. Feel the difference?
Father James Silver
----- Original Message -----
From: Harold Holmyard
Date: Friday, December 15, 2006 7:02 am
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] (no subject)
To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
> pporta at oham.net wrote:
> > Rev 22:12.
> >
> > The word 'MISQOS' has always and everywhere in the Bible the
> meaning
> > 'positive reward' or 'prize' or 'recompense'?
> > Is there any place in the Bible where this word conveys a
> negative sense
> > (punishment)?
> HH: It might be able to do it indirectly through its
> signification of
> "wages":
>
> Prov. 11:18 The wicked man earns deceptive WAGES, but he who
> sows
> righteousness reaps a sure reward.
>
> 2Pet. 2:13 And shall receive the REWARD of unrighteousness, as
> they that
> count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and
> blemishes,
> sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast
> with you;
>
> 2Pet. 2:15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone
> astray,
> following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the
> WAGES of
> unrighteousness;
>
> Yours,
> Harold Holmyard
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