[B-Greek] Rev 20:4 KRIMA judgment

Iver Larsen iver_larsen at sil.org
Tue Oct 24 14:43:12 EDT 2006


> On Oct 24, 2006, at 12:14 AM, Oun Kwon wrote:
>
>> I need your help clarify
>>
>> Rev 20:4a
>>
>>   KAI EIDON QRONOUS KAI EKAQISAN EP' AUTOUS
>>   KAI KRIMA EDOQH AUTOIS
>>
>> What is basis of understanding KRIMA as 'authority of judgment' as in
>> most of English translations?  (I wonder what would it mean by it.
>> Are they supposed to judge people such as those dead ones as in 20:12?
>>   The saints may be priests but do we have any text supporting them to
>> be judges?) Is this understanding from Greek itself or from
>> (scholarly) opinion?
>>
>> Someone suggested it as 'judgment on them which is for their favor'.
>> This seems plausible.

What is this suggestion supposed to mean?
The activity of judging (and authority to do so) was given to them, so these unnamed people sitting on thrones were to 
judge some unspecified people. It is likely that the author of Revelation is thinking of "judging" in a broader sense 
like in Hebrew, where a judge is basically a leader. The leaders we meet in the Book of Judges were not judges in our 
modern sense. I find it interesting that the verb BASILEUW occurs both in v. 4 and v. 6.
>
> I suppose you got "authority of judgment" from BDAG #3: "action or
> function of a judge, judging, judgment" -- if not, that's where you
> ought to have looked and that's where you ought to have begun your
> investigation, rather than in commentaries. KRIMA is a -MA nominal
> formation built upon the verbal root and a nominal element meaning
> something like 'result/outcome of action."

Is there any difference between KRIMA and KRISIS? Both can apparently be used to indicate either the result (judgment) 
or the activity (judging).

Iver Larsen




More information about the B-Greek mailing list