[B-Greek] Questions concerning pistis/pistos
Iver Larsen
iver_larsen at sil.org
Thu Feb 15 03:46:45 EST 2007
Hi, Carl Unger,
If you have found this in the archives, have you also read the responses at the time? I made my own
response on 25 February, 03. If you have read the response(s), do you have further questions?
The gist of my ideas about it is as follows:
PISTOS as an adjective can be both semantically "active" and "passive". By this I mean that it can
refer to one who believes, a believer, or it can refer to someone or something that can be believed,
a trustworthy person or idea. The sense of "loyal" is part of the broader semantic range of the
second of these. A trustworthy servant or soldier is also loyal. Even in English the word "faithful"
includes within its semantic range the sense of loyal. (sense 2 of 5 in my Webster's).
Iver Larsen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl Unger" <carlunger at gmail.com>
To: <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 7:12 AM
Subject: [B-Greek] Questions concerning pistis/pistos
>I found this interesting post from a member, I know it was posted back in
> about 03' but I am very interested if his article holds any water, any help
> would be great, thank you.
>
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