[B-Greek] RCORRECTION e: MISQOS Re: (no subject)

frjsilver at optonline.net frjsilver at optonline.net
Fri Dec 15 10:52:16 EST 2006


hOLIKE hYPALLHLWN

Sorry.  Just had cataract surgery -- can't quite see what I'm writing, although I know how to increase the size of the pages I'm reading on the monitor.

Father James Silver

----- Original Message -----
From: frjsilver at optonline.net
Date: Friday, December 15, 2006 10:48 am
Subject: [B-Greek] MISQOS Re: (no subject)
To: Harold Holmyard 
Cc: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org

> 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 hYPALLHLWN. 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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