[B-Greek] Meaning of QAUMASTA?

Barry nebarry at verizon.net
Tue Feb 14 16:54:00 EST 2006


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>>I am working on a translation with multiple uses of the same
adjective, some times used substantively, "wonderful words," "wonderful
words," and also, or so it seems to me, as a sort of adverb, "to work in
a wonderful manner?" But, let me show it to you first, and then I'll
translate it as far as I can.  I believe it is a paraphrasing of the New
Testament...but, I really don't know which part of the NT it was taken
from.<<

Not sure where this is from, but I don't remember it from anywhere in
the NT.


>>Transliterated as:

AUTOS ELEGON hUMIN, hOTI TW LEGEIN MONON QAUMASTA OU GENHSESQE
QAUMASTOI, EI MH QAUMASTA ERGASESQE.


"He himself was saying to us, that you do not become excellent
//persons// by only saying wonderful things, if you are not working/do
not work //in a wonderful way?//

     It is the last use of QAUMASTA that puzzles me.  How is the
adjective used here?  As a substantive: "wonderful things," or, is it as
an adverb, "work wonderfully"; though there is no reason to suppose
that, since the adverb would be QAMASTIWS.<<

I think it works just fine as the neuter plural direct object of
ERGASESQE.  "I myself was saying [has to be 1st singular imperfect by
your transliteration] to you that it is not by saying marvelous things
that you become marvelous, but by doing marvelous deeds..."  Or
whatever.

N.E. Barry Hofstetter
Adjunct Faculty & IT Support
The Center for Urban Theological Studies
http://www.cuts.edu
Visiting Faculty RTS Washington DC
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