[B-Greek] Lucian's word for revered
Anita Clerke
clerke at humanperformance.cc
Sat Dec 1 02:57:16 EST 2007
I would greatly appreciate help for the following 3 questions:
1) Lucian of Samosata's work "The Passing of Peregrinus" has the
following statement on pages 12-13 (paragraph 11), as found in The
Loeb Classical Library, Lucian with an English Translation by AM
Harmon Volume V, 1972:
"He [Peregrinus] interpreted and explained some of their books and
even composed many, and they [Christians] revered him as a god, made
use of him as a lawgiver."
και αυνεγραφεν και ως θεον αυτον
εκεινοι ηδουντο και νομοθετη εχροντο
KAI AUNEGPAFEN KAI hOS QEON AUTOΝ EKEINOI HiDOUNTO KAI NOMOQETΗι
ECRONTO
I know that he [Lucian] was writing in Attic Greek, but could someone
explain which of these words is being translated as revered. It would
seem to me to be ηδουντο HiDOUNTO. Hence the sentence would
read something like this word for word:
And composed [books] and as God him [Peregrinus] they [the
Christians] revered and as lawgiver ...
2) As Sir Richard Jebb translated the passage as "regarded him as a
god", and assuming that HiDOUNTO is the word for "regard", does it
only strictly mean regard in the sense of "I regard him as a great
scholar" ie. "I consider him as..".? Hence the word regard does not
necessarily carry the meaning, in and of itself, of a high regard or
lofty reverence fitting only for a god.
3) Whichever word is used as revered/regarded, is it found in the New
Testament?
Regards
Jonathan Clerke
clerke at humanperformance.cc
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