[B-Greek] Rev 10:6 CRONOS time or delay

Harold Holmyard hholmyard3 at earthlink.net
Tue Jun 26 16:40:06 EDT 2007


Dear Oun,
> CRONOS 'time'. In Rev 10:6, should it be understood as 'delay'? If so,
> on what basis? (? paraphrase). If it should be rendered as 'time', how
> should the text be understood?
>
> hOTI CRONOS OUKEIT ESTAI ...
>   

Apparently this was a common connotation of the word "time." Many 
authors are mentioned in BAGD in support of this sense, including 
Aeschylus, Menander, Lucian, and Diodorus Siculus. One example cited is 
Wisdom 12:20.

Yours,
Harold Holmyard






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