[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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