[B-Greek] Acts 20:11 - Jesus as Lord?

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Wed Dec 27 10:44:33 EST 2006


n Wednesday, December 27, 2006, at 10:31AM, "Luke Hartman" <lists at mrturtle.com> wrote:
>I was reading "Between Jesus and Paul" by Martin Hengel, and he  
>translated the end of the verse (or at least the one translating his  
>work into English) 'also spoke to the Greeks and proclaimed Jesus as  
>Kyrios'
>
>HSAN DE TINES EX AUTWN ANDRES KUPRIOI KAI KURHNAIOI hOITINES ELQONTES  
>EIS ANTIOCEIAN ELALOUN KAI PROS TOUS hELLHNISTAS EUAGGELIZOMENOI TON  
>KURION IHSOUN
>
>The English version I checked (and my limited Greek knowledge) would  
>translate "Preaching/proclaiming/'goodnewsing' the Lord Jesus." Is  
>there any justification for Hengel's translation or does it really  
>make a difference?

Given this form of the Greek text, I'd say that TON KURION must be the
primary object of EUAGGELIZOMENOI and that IHSOUN is in apposition
to TON KURION. That would accord with the English version you checked.


Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (ret)



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