[B-Greek] ERGON and ERGAZOMAI - probably offlist replies would be better
George F Somsel
gfsomsel at yahoo.com
Sat Jan 27 23:27:38 EST 2007
It's not uncommon for a word to have different meanings. When two writers use a word, it's not unusual for them to mean different things by the same term. Indeed, it isn't unusual for the same author to use the identical term in more than one way. Sometimes a word can even have the totally opposite meaning from what it normally carries. "Bad" can be "good." Ask a physicist about "work" sometime. He might tell you that most of us don't do any.
george
gfsomsel
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From: Mitch Larramore <mitchlarramore at yahoo.com>
To: B Greek <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2007 10:54:14 PM
Subject: [B-Greek] ERGON and ERGAZOMAI - probably offlist replies would be better
Comparing
John's Gospel, 6.29
APEKRIQH IHSOUS KAI EIPEN AUTOIS, TOUTO ESTIN TO ERGON
TOU QEOU, hINA PISTEUHTE EIS hON APESTEILEN EKEINOS
with
Romans 4.5
TWi DE MH ERGAZOMENWi, PISTEUONTI DE EPI TON
DIKAIOUNTA TON ASEBH,
It seems that PISTEUW can be both a ERGON and not
ERGAZOMENWi.
Not to discuss contradictions, but does the lexical
range of meanings of the ERG- word group help explain
how these two verses mesh, if they do? I'm not
interested in hermeneutical issues, just lexical ones.
Mitch Larramore
Sugar Land, Texas
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